Tag: NodeJS

Firebase NodeJS Official Blog Oct. 18, 2021

Protecting your backends with Firebase App Check - Use Firebase App Check to protected hosted APIs and own backend resources.

Cloud Spanner NodeJS Official Blog Sept. 4, 2021

Deploying a Cloud Spanner-based Node.js application - How to deploy a Node.js application on Cloud Spanner, and cover a few important Cloud Spanner concepts along the way.

BigQuery NodeJS Aug. 16, 2021

Optimizing your BigQuery tables using clustering - Besides the table partitioning to improve performance and costs in BigQuery, there is also another technique available called clustering.

Cloud Functions NodeJS Aug. 16, 2021

ES Modules in Cloud Functions - With recent updates, Google Cloud Functions for Node now supports ES modules out of the box!

BigQuery NodeJS Aug. 9, 2021

Optimizing your BigQuery tables using partitioning: Time-unit column-partitioned tables - Especially when working with Big Data, costs can quickly explode, and performance can degrade fast when data starts to pile up.

NodeJS Official Blog Python Aug. 9, 2021

Try a tutorial in the Google Cloud Console - You can follow tutorials and walkthroughs in the Google Cloud Console, allowing you to view the instructions and the console at the same time. The tutorials include links and highlights, making it easy to find the screens and buttons you're looking for.

Cloud Firestore NodeJS Python July 19, 2021

Try a Tutorial in the Google Cloud Console - How the console can help you clean up your tab game.

Cloud Pub/Sub NodeJS Python July 12, 2021

Exploring Pub/Sub and Pub/Sub Lite - Exploring and comparing Pub/Sub and Pub/Sub Lite.

Cloud Run NodeJS Serverless July 12, 2021

Session Management on Google Cloud Run with Serverless Redis - A basic web application that runs on Google Cloud Run and keeps the user sessions in Upstash Redis.

Cloud Pub/Sub NodeJS July 12, 2021

Setting Up Gmail Pub/Sub - This article is a basic walkthrough of setting up Pub/Sub notifications when new emails arrive in Gmail.

Cloud Storage Firebase NodeJS Tutorial July 12, 2021

Uploading an Image to Firebase Cloud Storage and returning URL with Express / Nodejs - A step by step tutorial to create and deploy web application in Firebase to upload images.

Cloud Firestore NodeJS June 28, 2021

Firecode - Firecode is a Node.js library that lets you efficiently traverse Firestore collections.

Cloud Pub/Sub NodeJS June 22, 2021

Using Cloud Pub/Sub on Node.js from Elm - This article will walk you through building an Elm application that runs in Node.js, and uses the Node.js Pub/Sub libraries for communicating with Pub/Sub.

Java NodeJS Official Blog Python June 14, 2021

Node, Python and Java repositories now available in Artifact Registry - Expanded language support lets you store Java, Node and Python artifacts in Artifact Registry, for a more secure software supply chain.

Cloud Pub/Sub Javascript Kotlin NodeJS June 7, 2021

Using Cloud Pub/Sub on Node.js from Kotlin/JS - Kotlin/JS app which communicates with Cloud Pub/Sub.

BigQuery Javascript NodeJS May 24, 2021

Working with Data in BigQuery using Node.js - This article will get into the actual usage of BigQuery and show how to read and write data using Node.js.

Cloud Functions Firebase Javascript NodeJS Tutorial May 24, 2021

How to Generate and Store a PDF With Firebase - Node.js tutorial on how to generate PDF documents with Firebase Cloud Functions and upload them to Firebase Cloud Storage.

Cloud Run NodeJS May 10, 2021

Deploy Cloud Run for Nodejs Projects in Nx Workspace - Nx is a suite of powerful, extensible dev tools to help you architect, test, and build at any scale.

CI Cloud Functions DevOps NodeJS Serverless May 10, 2021

Deploying GCP Cloud Function via Bitbucket Pipelines + Serverless Framework - Setting CI/CD pipeline for Cloud Functions.

Cloud Storage Javascript NodeJS Storage Feb. 22, 2021

Google Storage — How to export and zip a big amount of data with NodeJS - Moving 50K files inside the Google Storage, downloading, zipping, and uploading to another bucket.

Cloud DNS NodeJS Feb. 8, 2021

Simulating DNS ALIAS/ANAME records on Google Cloud DNS - Using Cloud DNS with Heroku.

Docker Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes NodeJS Jan. 25, 2021

Simple Todo List NodeJS Web Application CI/CD Pipeline with GCP - The project builds a Kubernetes cluster on a GCP using GKE to run a simple todo list web application written in NodeJS.

Javascript NodeJS Security Typescript Jan. 18, 2021

Service Account Authentication on GCP via Node.js App - Providing secure access for server-to-server communication on Google Cloud Platform.

Cloud Run Firebase NodeJS Jan. 18, 2021

Build a Vue app with Firebase and Cloud Run - Developing and deploying a Vue application communicating with the Spring Boot application hosted on Cloud Run.

Cloud Run Cloud SQL Docker NodeJS Terraform Jan. 11, 2021

Building a Fully Automated, Scalable, Cost Efficient and Performant Web Infrastructure for 2021 - Part 1: Setting Up Locally.

NodeJS Official Blog Serverless Dec. 28, 2020

Tips for writing and deploying Node.js apps on Cloud Functions - Follow these tips for writing performant, observable, Node.js applications that run on Cloud Functions.

NodeJS Nov. 16, 2020

Realtime Database Triggers with Firebase Functions - Cloud Functions for Firebase is truly a great way add quick database triggered events to your project with minimal effort and deploy time….

Cloud Firestore Cloud Tasks NodeJS Typescript Nov. 16, 2020

Implementing Asynchronous Processing with Google Cloud Tasks and Cloud Functions for Firebase - Demonstration of using transactions in Firestore and Cloud Tasks.

App Engine Cloud SQL NodeJS Oct. 5, 2020

Running express on Google Cloud - Deploying and running NestJS web app on App Engine.

Cloud SQL NodeJS Sept. 7, 2020

Google Cloud SQL — Tips & Tricks - Using Google Cloud SQL with Node.js apps in a serverless environment.

Beginner Cloud Firestore Cloud Functions Firebase NodeJS Aug. 31, 2020

Cloud Functions — Firestore Triggers - Examples of using Firestore triggers in Cloud Functions.

App Engine NodeJS Aug. 24, 2020

Deploying a React App to Google’s App Engine - How to deploy an example React app to App Engine in less than 5 minutes.

Beginner Cloud Run Docker NodeJS Tutorial Aug. 17, 2020

Deploy a Node API to Cloud Run - Run custom Docker images on Google’s Cloud Run infrastructure.

Firebase NodeJS Official Blog Aug. 17, 2020

Manage your Remote Config templates from the Admin Node.js SDK - Firebase Remote Config allows developers to control the appearance and the behaviour of their apps without having to publish an app update, is now supported from Admin Node.js SDK.

Cloud Run NodeJS Serverless Aug. 10, 2020

Google Sheets + Cloud Run - Integrate the Google Sheets API to Cloud Run app.

DevOps Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes NodeJS July 20, 2020

Kubernetes Cluster for Node API with Socket.io and automatic SSL - Full Node API example with all of the config files needed to create an inexpensive Kubernetes cluster with support for socket.io/websockets.

Cloud Functions Firebase NodeJS July 20, 2020

Having Fun with Clojurescript on Google Cloud Function - Writing code in Closure and converting to Javascript and deploying as Cloud Function.

Cloud Functions Cloud Scheduler NodeJS Serverless June 29, 2020

How to Build a Serverless Daily Weather SMS Alert with Twilio and Google Cloud Platform - A quick dive into serverless functions, third party APIs, as well as cloud cron jobs!

Cloud Functions Firebase Javascript NodeJS June 22, 2020

Migrate your Firebase Cloud Functions to Node.js 10 - Node 8 has been deprecated, and you’ll have to move to node 10. Here’s what you need to know to make that happen smoothly.

App Engine Cloud Identity Aware Proxy NodeJS Security June 22, 2020

Beyond Corp in a Bottle — Uncorked! - Setting up Cloud Identity Aware Proxy for NodeJS App Engine sample app.

Artifact Registry Beginner Cloud Run Kubernetes NodeJS June 8, 2020

Getting Started with Artifact Registry: Deploying to Cloud Run - The article describes how to deploy an Artifact Registry container to Cloud Run.

Cloud Firestore Firebase NodeJS June 1, 2020

CRUD Operations In Firebase using Async Await In Node.js - Performing CRUD operations in Firebase using the async-await in NodeJS.

Cloud KMS NodeJS Secret Manager Security June 1, 2020

Secure Secret Storage using Google Cloud Platform - A simple solution to securely storing client and application secrets when using Google Cloud Platform.

App Engine Cloud Build NodeJS May 25, 2020

Deploying a NodeJS Application on GCP with App Engine & CloudBuild (Part 1) - This three-part tutorial will walk you through all the steps you need to deploy your NodeJS application to Google App Engine,.

Beginner Cloud Storage Firebase NodeJS Tutorial May 25, 2020

Firebase Storage And Firestore With Node.js For Absolute Beginners - Storing files and data to Firebase using NodeJS from scratch.

App Engine NodeJS May 18, 2020

Lesson Learned from my first GCP APP Engine Deployment with Node.js - Issues when deploying NodeJS app for the first time on App Engine.

Firebase NodeJS May 11, 2020

Firebase: Fetching and deleting user accounts in bulk - Using Firebase Admin SDK APIs for fetching and deleting individual user accounts.

Cloud Memorystore Kubernetes NodeJS May 4, 2020

Google Cloud MemoryStore with Node JS on Google Kubernetes Engine - Cache improves your app performance terrifically, check how Google provides fully-managed service for Redis & Memcached for Nodejs.

CI Cloud Run NodeJS May 4, 2020

Sapper, Google Cloud Run, Continuous Deployment - A boilerplate template - Deploying website to Cloud Run built with Sapper framework.

Cloud Run Cloud SQL NodeJS Serverless April 20, 2020

Build a serverless REST API with Node.js and MySQL on Google Cloud — Serverless Toolbox - An example of serverless REST API with Cloud Run and Cloud SQL, using Node.js and MySQL.

CI Cloud Build NodeJS March 9, 2020

How to speed up Angular build times with caching - Improving building times in Cloud Build using caching for node modules.

Cloud Run NodeJS Secret Manager Security Serverless March 9, 2020

Serverless Mysteries with Secret Manager Libraries on Google Cloud - Using Secret Manager in a NodeJS web app which is deployed on Cloud Run.

Cloud Functions Cloud Pub/Sub NodeJS Feb. 10, 2020

Test Pub/Sub with the Functions Framework and Pub/Sub Emulator - Testing Cloud Function written in NodeJS using local Pub/Sub Emulator.

Cloud Functions Go NodeJS Python Secret Manager Serverless Jan. 27, 2020

“Init” Cloud Functions - Code samples for initializing Cloud Functions with data from Secret Manager.

BigQuery Cloud Functions Cloud Memorystore NodeJS Serverless Jan. 13, 2020

Fast Exports from BigQuery to Cloud Memorystore - Loading data from BigQuery to Cloud Memorystore

Cloud Run NodeJS Serverless Jan. 13, 2020

Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing - Google Cloud Run - Overview of Cloud Run and sample app written in NodeJS.

Cloud Functions NodeJS Serverless Jan. 6, 2020

Serverless ETL on Google Cloud, a case study: raw data into JSON Lines - Using Cloud Functions and Node.js client for Google Cloud Storage to transform server log data and save in another bucket in Cloud Storage.

App Engine Cloud Functions Cloud Run NodeJS Translation API Dec. 9, 2019

Portable code migrating across Google Cloud's serverless platforms - Deploying function written in NodeJS to various serverless products on GCP.

Cloud Speech API NodeJS Dec. 2, 2019

Handling specific errors in Google Speech to Text for videos streams - The article provides ways on how to handle some of the errors which can occur when extracting text from video stream.

BigQuery Cloud Functions Cloud Scheduler NodeJS Serverless Nov. 11, 2019

End to end serverless data pipeline on Google Cloud - Scheduled serverless data pipeline that gets data from OpenWeatherMap and stores it into BigQuery.

Cloud Functions NodeJS Oct. 21, 2019

Serverless Slack Bot: Introduction for Integrating Slack Bot with Google Cloud Functions (Part 1) - This post is introducing you to how to get started with a basic Slack bot and integrate it with Google Cloud Functions for a serverless request-response function.

Cloud Functions NodeJS Oct. 21, 2019

Serverless Slack Bot: Automate Tasks in Google VM Instance (Part 2) - Using Cloud Functions to start/stop Compute Engine VM from Slack.

Cloud Run Docker Gitlab NodeJS Serverless Oct. 14, 2019

Serverless Docker using Google Cloud Run - Deploy your Docker containers in the cloud effortlessly using Cloud Run and GitLab CI / CD.

App Engine NodeJS Oct. 14, 2019

How-To deploy a Single Page Application and its backend to Google App Engine - Deploying frontend and backend NodeJS application on Google App Engine.

Cloud Run Kubernetes NodeJS Sept. 2, 2019

Cloud Run Using Pubsub Triggers - Demonstrating Cloud Run triggered by PubSub.

Cloud Storage Firebase NodeJS Sept. 2, 2019

Using the new list API in Cloud Storage for Firebase - Demonstration of new "listing" feature for Firebase Cloud Storage.

Cloud Functions NodeJS Sept. 2, 2019

Express Routing with Google Cloud Functions - Using Functions Framework with Express routing.

Cloud Firestore Firebase Javascript NodeJS Aug. 19, 2019

Firestorm: An ORM for Firestore - Firestorm is an Firestore ORM for TypeScript.

Cloud SQL NodeJS Aug. 19, 2019

Google Cloud SQL for MySQL – Connection Security, High Availability and Failover - Improving security, availability and fault tolerance on Cloud SQL.

Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes NodeJS July 29, 2019

Build a simple chat app with node.js and Berlioz - Deploying Node.js app on GKE using Berlioz (a tool which configures cloud infrastructure and deploys services).

App Engine Cloud Datastore IoT NodeJS May 20, 2019

Tell me more Internet of Things — Part 5 — Google Cloud — User handling - The article describes how to build a web application for ingested IoT Core data implement security, data visualization, device registration.

Cloud Functions Firebase NodeJS May 20, 2019

Building Scalable Applications with Google Cloud Services Part 5: Microservices with Firebase - Using Firebase and Cloud Functions to create microservice based application.

Cloud Run NodeJS Security May 20, 2019

Berglas with Node.js on Cloud Run - Using Berglas (a tool to secure and store secrets) in Cloud Run.

CI Cloud Build NodeJS May 13, 2019

How we built a GitHub App to level up our CI pipeline - Using Github and Cloud Build for CI pipeline.

API Cloud Run Docker NodeJS Serverless May 13, 2019

Build and deploy serverless dockerized API with Cloud Run - Build and deploy dockerized NodeJs API with Google Cloud Run.

Cloud Functions Go NodeJS Official Blog Python Serverless May 6, 2019

Your favorite runtimes, now generally available on Cloud Functions - Python, Go and Node.js are now supported runtimes on Cloud Functions.

App Engine NodeJS Tutorial May 6, 2019

Using Google APIs in an App Engine Application with Node.js - The article explains how to set and use Google APIs in App Engine NodeJS runtime.

App Engine Cloud Build NodeJS April 22, 2019

How to deploy Vue.js app to Google Cloud with Cloud Build - Example of deploying Vue.js application to App Engine via Cloud Build.

App Engine NodeJS Tutorial April 8, 2019

Deploying a React-Node-MongoDB app to Google Cloud Platform’s Google App Engine - A process of deploying full stack Node-Express-React MongoDB (hosted on MongoAtlas) to Google App Engine.

App Engine Go Java NodeJS April 8, 2019

Google App Engine Benchmark - Benchmarking Google App Engine for various properties and languages.

Cloud Build NodeJS March 25, 2019

NodeJS Continuous Deployment in Google Cloud with Kubernetes & Container Builder - Setting continuous deployment for Kubernetes Engine.

NodeJS March 4, 2019

GCP Podcast - #164 Node.js with Myles Borins

Cloud Functions NodeJS Feb. 18, 2019

Generating PDF invoices with Google Cloud function - How to generate PDF invoices with Google Cloud functions based on JSON input representing invoice data.

Compute Engine Container Registry Google Cloud Platform NodeJS Jan. 28, 2019

A Clearer Vue in Google Cloud - Deploying a Vue.js application to Google Cloud Platform in a few minutes.

Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes NodeJS Jan. 21, 2019

Building your very own Service Mesh - How to build your very own Service Mesh.

Compute Engine Docker NodeJS Dec. 31, 2018

Dockerizing and auto scaling Node.js on Google Cloud - How to dockerize a Node.js server for hosting in Google Cloud.

App Engine Cloud Datastore NodeJS Dec. 17, 2018

Build a blog application on Google App Engine: Comment module (part 7) - How to build a small blog application in Node.js using the Google Datastore and deploy it to Google App Engine.

Monitoring NodeJS Stackdriver Dec. 17, 2018

Web Metrics with OpenCenus and Stackdriver - Article describes an approach to measure and understand application's health as experienced by the population of users of a web application in near realtime.

App Engine Cloud Datastore NodeJS Tutorial Dec. 3, 2018

Build a blog application on Google App Engine: the App Context (part 3) - How to build a blog application in Node.js using the Google Datastore and deploy it to Google App Engine.

App Engine Cloud Datastore NodeJS Tutorial Dec. 3, 2018

Build a blog application on Google App Engine: BlogPost module (part 4)

App Engine NodeJS Official Blog Nov. 5, 2018

Node.js 10 available for App Engine, in lockstep with Long Term Support - Beta availability of Node.js 10 on App Engine standard environment, and making Node.js 10 the default version on the flexible environment.

Cloud Functions NodeJS Official Blog Nov. 5, 2018

Serverless from the ground up: Connecting Cloud Functions with a database (Part 3) - Connecting Cloud Functions with a database.

Cloud Functions Javascript NodeJS Tutorial Oct. 22, 2018

Using Puppeteer in Google Cloud Functions - Article goes through setting up Puppeteer (headless Chrome) and using in Cloud Functions.

NodeJS NoSQL Official Blog Oct. 8, 2018

Build it like you MEAN it with MongoDB Atlas on GCP - Developing apps in MEAN stack and deploying to GCP.

Beginner Cloud Functions NodeJS Sept. 17, 2018

Using a simple CORS Node.js Google Cloud Function for returning Header information. - How original client devices header information can be read with a simple Google Cloud Function.

Cloud Build NodeJS Sept. 3, 2018

Serverless CI/CD — Google Cloud Build - Example of utilizing Google Cloud Build for a NodeJS express application.

Cloud Functions NodeJS Official Blog Aug. 20, 2018

Introducing headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine - The new Node.js runtime for App Engine allows to run headless Chrome without having to do any setup or configuration.

Cloud Build NodeJS Aug. 20, 2018

Continuous Deployment for Node.js on Google Cloud Platform - Using Cloud Build,a managed build service in GCP for Continuous Deployment for Node.js on Google Cloud Platform.

Firebase NodeJS July 30, 2018

Firebase: Create custom tokens without service account credentials - Create custom tokens without service account credentials for Firebase using node.js.

Cloud Functions NodeJS July 30, 2018

You Can Now Write Google Cloud Functions with Node.js 8 - Using the Node.js 8 environment by deploying a function that uses a couple of features that weren’t available in Node.js 6.

Cloud SQL NodeJS July 30, 2018

Building a Node API with Express and Google Cloud SQL - Building a Node API with Express and Google Cloud SQL.

DevOps Google Kubernetes Engine NodeJS July 9, 2018

CircleCI 2 and Google Cloud Kubernetes - Using CircleCI 2 for a NodeJS application that uses MySQL and Redis.

Compute Engine NodeJS Tutorial July 2, 2018

Setup Bitcoin Lightning Server on Google Cloud - This guide will walk you through setting up your Bitcoin full node, Lightning network node, and a MEAN stack server to interact securely with your node.

Google Cloud Platform NodeJS Official Blog SAP June 25, 2018

How to run SAP Fiori Front-End Server (OpenUI5) on GCP in 20 mins - Setting up SAP OpenUI5 on a GCP instance running a local node.js webserver to run sample apps.

Beginner Cloud Functions NodeJS June 25, 2018

Getting started with Google Cloud Functions using NODE.JS - Brief introduction into using Firebase and Google Cloud Functions using NodeJS.

App Engine Cloud Functions NodeJS June 25, 2018

Migrating From Firebase Functions to App Engine - Brief tutorial with steps to migrate Cloud Function from Firebase to App Engine Standard Node.js

App Engine NodeJS June 18, 2018

Deploying Node.js on App Engine standard environment - How you can quickly and easily deploy a node.js application on App Engine standard environment.

Cloud Functions NodeJS Stackdriver June 18, 2018

Stackdriver Debugger on Google Cloud Functions - Steps to make Stackdriver Debugger work on Google Cloud Functions.

App Engine Cloud Functions Compute Engine Google Kubernetes Engine NodeJS Official Blog June 11, 2018

Time to “Hello, World”: VMs vs. containers vs. PaaS vs. FaaS - Build a “Hello, World” web application on each of GCP’s compute offerings—Google Compute Engine (VMs), Google Kubernetes Engine (containers), Google App Engine (PaaS), and Google Cloud Functions (FaaS).

Cloud Functions NodeJS June 11, 2018

Serverless node.js REST API with Google Cloud Function & Firestore - How to build a simple CRUD node.js Express REST API using Google Cloud Function and store the data using Firestore NoSQL database.

Compute Engine NodeJS May 28, 2018

Manage Google Compute Engine with Node.js - An Intro to the Node.js Client Library for Compute Engine.

App Engine NodeJS May 14, 2018

Node.js on Google App Engine Standard - During Google I/O talk, Node.js runtime for Google App Engine Standard was revealed.

App Engine Firebase NodeJS May 14, 2018

RESTful Web Service with Node.js, Google App Engine and Firebase Real-time Database - Using Google App Engine to create and deploy RESTful web service.

App Engine Cloud SQL NodeJS May 14, 2018

How to deploy NodeJS (Loopback) server + PostgreSQL database to Google App Engine + CloudSQL - Steps to deploy Loopback server + PostgreSQL database to Google App Engine + CloudSQL.

Google Cloud Platform NodeJS May 14, 2018

How to authenticate Google Cloud Services on Heroku for Node.js App - Authorize various Google Cloud services such as datastore, cloud storage, BigQuery etc. on Heroku.

NodeJS Python Stackdriver April 9, 2018

Stackdriver Custom Metrics in Python - Stackdriver Custom Metrics in Python with example of how to use it in Node.js.

Cloud Functions NodeJS March 26, 2018

Reducing networking connections in Cloud Functions - Article describes tips how to reduce networking connections in Cloud Functions.

Docker Google Kubernetes Engine NodeJS Tutorial Feb. 26, 2018

Deploying your NodeJS app with Docker and Kubernetes on GCP - Learn how to deploy NodeJS app with Docker and Kubernetes on GCP.

App Engine NodeJS Feb. 5, 2018

Creating a text subscription service using Google Cloud Platform - Learn how to build a Cat Fact text service using GCP and Twilio

App Engine NodeJS Tutorial Jan. 8, 2018

Run a LoopBack App on Google App Engine - This article explains how to setup LoopBack (framework for creating APIs and connecting them with backend data sources) on Google App Engine.

Firebase NodeJS Jan. 8, 2018

Google Home App with Node.js — A Song of API-ce and Firebase - Learn about Google Home App build with Node.js and Firebase.

NodeJS Dec. 4, 2017

GCP Podcast - #105 Node.js with Myles Borins

NodeJS Stackdriver Sept. 25, 2017

Announcing Stackdriver Debugger for Node.js - With Stackdriver Debugger for Node JS it's possible to debug deployed Node JS code

NodeJS Sept. 4, 2017

Getting Started w/ Node.js on GCP

Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes NodeJS Aug. 28, 2017

Deploy Parse Server and Parse-Dashboard on Google Cloud Platform with Container Engine - Step by step description of deploying Parse server with Kubernetes on Google Container Engine

NodeJS July 31, 2017

Create a Node RESTful API for Google Cloud Platform: Step 4

App Engine NodeJS July 17, 2017

Ember FastBoot + Google App Engine - FastBoot is a library for rendering Ember.js applications in Node.js.

Cloud Storage NodeJS June 19, 2017

Uploading to Google Cloud Storage from Node.js - Step by step tutorial how to upload file to Google Cloud Storage from NodeJS app

Cloud Functions NodeJS April 17, 2017

Building your first Action for Google Home (part 2) - Using Cloud Functions to create custom Action for Google Home. Here is first part Building your first Action for Google Home (in 30 minutes)