Firebase — Google Application Development Platform

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name: firebase-google-application-development-platform
slug: "firebase-google-app-development-platform"
description: "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."
github_stars: 5100
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk"
author: "Google / Firebase"
category: "Integrations & Connectors"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
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  github_repo: "firebase/firebase-js-sdk"
  github_stars: 5100
  npm_package: "firebase"
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# 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](https://github.com/creationix/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

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