Bolt is an experimental security and rules compiler for Firebase. It is currently in beta. The language definition is converging, yet not yet finalized. We welcome experimentation, but ask that you hand-verify the resulting JSON output before using with production applications.
Otherwise, we'd love to have feedback from early adopters. You can email questions to [email protected] using "Bolt" in the subject line, or post bugs on our Issue Tracker.
- Guide to Using Firebase Bolt - Introduction to using Bolt.
- Firebase Security and Modeling Language - Language documentation and syntax.
You can easily install the bolt compiler using npm:
$ npm install --global firebase-bolt
Execute the Bolt compiler from the command line (it reads a Bolt file from standard input and writes a JSON rules file to standard output):
$ firebase-bolt < rules.bolt > rules.json
You can then upload the resulting rules.json file via the firebase command line:
$ firebase deploy
The firebase command line tool version 2 will also compile your Bolt file directly if you have firebase-bolt installed and you use the .bolt file extension in the rules property of your firebase.json configuration file.
You should have node.js and npm installed to use this repository.
Setup command line environment and build and test.
$ source tools/use
$ configure-project
$ gulp
Check JavaScript source files for required formatting conventions:
$ gulp lint
Build Bolt parser from PEG grammar:
$ gulp build
Run command line tests:
$ gulp test
More extensive tests which include running against a sandboxed Firebase app:
$ run-tests
Run browser-based tests:
$ browser-tests