Building a web application

In order to build the web application, we make use of Node.js.

Download and install Node.js:

  1. node.js can be downloaded from the link here: https://nodejs.org/en/. For the version that we are building now, we will use the 8.11.1 LTS version of Node.js on Windows 64-bit machine.
  2. Once you download the executable file from https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.11.1/node-v8.11.1-x64.msi, make sure to install Node.js using the default parameters.

Create a Firebase project:

  1. A Firebase project can be created by logging in to the Firebase console here: https://console.firebase.google.com
  2. Within the console, click on Add project:
  1. Enter project name (highlighted in red) and fetch project ID (highlighted in black), as follows:

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