Firebase Cookbook

How to do it...

Typically, we don't have a way to showcase all the files we have within our bucket. We do have files and folders in Firebase; however there's no API to showcase folders, but only to showcase files.

Bear in mind that the notion of folders doesn't have a meaning within the platform. This means that there's nothing called a folder within the API or logic--it's just a basic path reference to our files.

Thus, we need to have our own custom logic for the folder showcasing, typically a local database where you can save your basic files metadata. However, that is out of the scope of this chapter. 

1. As we did previously, we need to create ourselves a reference for the required file:

      //Getting the file reference. var rootRef = firebase.storage().ref(); ...