Purpose

Setup a simple one page product site with an email registration running on Google firebase and sending emails using Gmail, plus required cookie consent and privacy page for complience.

Note: Email sending is configured for service accounts which work with GSuite only.

Components

1. Jekyll static website - frontend for the product single page using HTML5 UP Spectral theme and adapted from https://github.com/arkadianriver/spectral.
2. Cookie consent generated from https://cookieconsent.insites.com
3. Firebase database for storing signup emails using Firebase sdk on website.
4. Firebase functions: one to send confrimation emails on added signup; the second handles confirmation links.
5. Nodemailer and Email templates are used to send confirmation mails via Gmail.

Setup

Firebase project

1. Create a new Firebase project in https://console.firebase.google.com or use an egzisting one
2. Configure domain for your product (optional)
3. Create Firebase database and add root object

Jekyll site configuration

1. Configure jekyll:

• _config.yml - main configuration
• jekyll/_data/features.yml - feature blocks configuration
• jekyll/_daya/spotlights.yml - spotlights configuration
  Update index.html or layouts to remove unused parts

2. Go to Firebase project settings and setup web access to database https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project//settings/general/
3. Create to /jekyll/js/firebase.js and copy configuration to the file:

    var firebaseConfig = {
    apiKey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    authDomain: "your-project.firebaseapp.com",
    databaseURL: "https://your-project.firebaseio.com",
    projectId: "your-project",
    storageBucket: "your-project.appspot.com",
    messagingSenderId: "00000000000000000",
    appId: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
     };
   

   add a collection name for signups like this:

    var config = {
      signupCollection: 'signups'
     };
   

4. Update privacy policy page jekyll/privacy.md (optional)
5. run jekyll build to build or jekyll serve to test locally

Confirgure email sending using Google account

1. Generate key for a default service account from Firebase console: settings > Project settings > Service accounts and click Generate new private key
2. Create functions/src/service-key.json file and copy private key contents into it
3. Go to Manage service account permissions
4. Select a service account to which you have generated the key and click edit. Enable Domain wide delegation
5. Enable gmail api for the project in Google cloud console https://console.cloud.google.com
6. Setup cloud functions environment parameters of a gmail account (user) which used to send emails and a sender email to be shown to receipients: firebase functions:config:set gmail.user="[email protected]" gmail.sender="Sender Name <[email protected]>"
7. If your sender email is different than one of the user, set sending alias in Gmail > Settings > Accounts > Send as email
8. You need to give permissions to the service account in GSuite admin. Go to Google Admin > Security > Settings > Advanced Settings > Manage API client access, enter Service Account Id (numbers) and API scopes - https://mail.google.com/
9. Change email templates to your liking in functions/src/emails/confirm folder.

Deployment

Run:

jekyll build

firebase deploy

Licenses

All code, but Jekyll templates are distributed under MIT license. Jekyll templates are distributed under CC v.3