[Firebase + Angular] Twilio for AngularFire

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Hsin Hsiao wrote:

Dear all,

I've been building AngularFire apps and I love the combo - fast, lean and
real-time syncing.

But I've been unable to find ways to integrate services like Twilio to my
app. Since I don't have a Node back-end I'm not sure how to make POST
request to Twilio API.

Twilio has a Node library but not a Javascript library. I figure I could
use $http post but how do I receive data Twilio posts back to me?

Am I treading beyond the limit of AngularFire and should I start putting
on a back-end?

Thanks!

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At this point, integration with Twilio will require you to spin up a
script of some sort. Depending on your setup complexity, you could utilize
anything from webscript.io (which you just call via HTTP, and it can
contact Twilio with your private creds) to Heroku (you can get quite a bit
of mileage out of their free tier) to a hosted service you run (not really
necessary for a node script).

One thing that makes this task much simpler is to utilize Firebase as the
central API, which omits the need for a RESTful service on your service and
instead turns it into a simple worker thread
<https://github.com/firebase/firebase-work-queue>. This tends to make
your workers into a few dozens lines of code and extremely practical and
flexible (I've run a couple on my laptop and even my phone during
migrations or releases).

In the coming months, we'll be releasing some tools to make integrating
with third parties quite a bit simpler. There's no official release data,
but those features are in active development.

Cheers,
Kato

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Hsin Hsiao <shin...@gmail.com
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