Firebase — Google Application Development Platform

Firebase is Google's app development platform providing real-time databases, authentication, cloud functions, hosting, storage, and analytics for web, iOS, Android, and Flutter applications.

Prerequisites

Node.js 18+, npm, Firebase CLI, Google Cloud account

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• In addition to Node.js we use yarn to facilitate multi package development.
• To install yarn follow the instructions listed on their website:
• $ yarn set version 1.22.11
• $ yarn -v

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Node.js

• Before you can start working on the Firebase JS SDK, you need to have Node.js
• installed on your machine. As of April 19th, 2024 the team has been testing with Node.js version

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• _NOTE: You can use a tool like NVM

• Yarn

• https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install

• Source: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://firebase.google.com/docs

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange