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Firebase Realtime Database Quickstart

The Firebase Database quickstart demonstrates how to connect to the Firebase Realtime Database and to send and retrieve data through a simple social blogging app. It will interoperate with the iOS and Android database quickstarts.

Introduction​

Read more about Firebase Database

Getting Started​

  1. Create your project on the Firebase Console. Copy your Firebase config object (from the "Add Firebase to your web app" dialog), and paste it in the config.ts file in the database directory.
  2. Enable the Google sign-in provider in the Authentication > SIGN-IN METHOD tab.
  3. You must have the Firebase CLI installed. If you don't have it install it with npm install -g firebase-tools and then configure it with firebase login.
  4. Run npm install to install the app's dependencies.
  5. On the command line run firebase use --add and select the Firebase project you have created.

To run the sample app locally during development:

  1. Run npm install to install dependencies.
  2. Run firebase emulators:start to start the local Firebase emulators.
  3. Run npm run dev to serve the app locally using Vite This will start a server locally that serves index.html on http://localhost:5173/index.html.

Running the app using the Firebase CLI:

  1. Run npm install to install dependencies.
  2. Run npm run build to build the app using Vite.
  3. Run firebase emulators:start to start the local Firebase emulators.
  4. In your terminal output, you will see the "Hosting" URL. By default, it will be 127.0.0.1:5002, though it may be different for you.
  5. Navigate in your browser to the URL output by the firebase emulators:start command.

To deploy the sample app to production:

  1. Run firebase deploy. This will deploy the sample app to https://<project_id>.firebaseapp.com.

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License​

© Google, 2016. Licensed under an Apache-2 license.