Firebase Cookbook

Getting ready 

Before we begin, we need to make sure that our application is fully configured with Firebase. Please check the Adding the Firebase plugin to our application recipe from this chapter, which will teach you how you can do that.

You will also need to initialize the Firebase plugin with the application. To do that, open your project, head to your app.js file, and add the following import:

      var firebase = require("nativescript-plugin-        firebase");

This will import the Firebase NativeScript plugin. Next, add the following lines of code: 

      firebase.init({}).then((instance) => {     console.log("[*] Firebase was successfully      initialised");     }, (error) => {     console.log("[*] Huston we've an initialization       error: " + error);      });

The preceding ...