onearmy-community-platform/packages/documentation/docs/Backend Development/integrations.md

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integrations	Integrations

Integrations with 3rd party services can be handled by the functions backend. Any number of triggers can be used, including Cloud Firestore (database) Triggers, HTTP, and cron Triggers

Examples

Post to slack on new howTo, event or map pin

This uses the firestore document triggers to recognise new database entries and make a http post to slack which uses a webhooks to add messages to a designated slack channel.

The full code can be seen at functions\src\Integrations\firebase-slack.ts and exposed in functions\src\index.ts

Configuration

Sometimes specific urls/api_keys need to be stored to use with the service. This is best done using config variables so that they are not exposed publically, such as those described at functions/src/config/config.ts.