Quality of Life (Dev):: maintainers cannot view their frontend changes due to dependencies on firebase credentials

[paul-rinaldi]

Describe the bug
To develop well, developers need to see the impact they are having.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. cd web-app
2. run: npm start
3. Navigate to Services Page
4. Observe the map not loading, though the services does load with initial mock service provider data

Expected behavior
The developer environment should match as closely to prod as possible.

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Additional context
Quickest solution (best) might be to ensure that we always have mocked up-to-date data checked into the repository as initialState of components before fetches are made using credentials.

Also, am I missing anything in this issue? Comment below. Thanks!!!!

[brian221]

I believe the way around this is to use the firebase command line tools.

1. Add any developers with at least a developer role to a non-production instance of the firebase project.
2. Use the firebase CLI to run using local http functions

https://firebase.google.com/docs/cli#emulate_your_project_using_local_http_functions

[brian221]

I may be overthinking the issue...you likely have Firebase credentials directly in your UI code.
Make those environment variables using .env. Then maintainers can be given a non-prod set of credentials they can use for development.