Firebase: routing hosting requests to storage

Question

How to route certain read requests (e.g. myapp.web.app/storage/avatar.jpg) to files that is stored in Firebase Storage? Reasons:

• on landing page I want to avoid loading Firebase JS libraries until user logs in
• be able to share certain user generated data on social networks
• don't want user to see link https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/myapp/o/file.json?alt=media&token=b19976f7-c211-2299-bac7-d5e9f4448acc

Answer 1

This is not possible just with any of the configuration options available for Firebase Hosting. Best you could do is rewrite a URL to Cloud Functions or Cloud Run, where you have code to download the content from Stroage and send that to the client.

• Route to Cloud Functions
• Route to Cloud Run