Firebase Cookbook

How to do it... 

If you followed the steps in Chapter 1, Firebase - Getting Started, you will have an idea of how we can integrate Firebase into our workflow.

1. We're going to assume that we're in a web workflow. So this recipe will demonstrate the basic steps of having references in Firebase Storage using the following code snippet:

    //Creating a reference that point to the root       directory.    let packtRef = firebase.storage().ref();

What we've done here is simply created a reference to the root directory; it's basically your application root directory where all your files and other folders will affiliate from.

2. Now let's see how we can get a reference for a created folder or even files in Firebase Storage using the following code block: