Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/master | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-master/examples/with-firebase
cd with-firebase

Set up firebase:

• create a project
• get your service account credentials and client credentials and set both in firebaseCredentials.js
• set your firebase database url in server.js
• on the firebase Authentication console, select Google as your provider

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

now

The goal is to authenticate users with firebase and store their auth token in sessions. A logged in user will see their messages on page load and then be able to post new messages.