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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase
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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

by Mayur Tanna, Harmeet Singh
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Initializing the Admin SDK

As we saw, Firebase admin SDK is only supported in Node.Js, so we'll create a new project with npm init and install the firebase admin from the npm package.

Run the following command to install firebase admin and save it in your package.json:

npm install firebase-admin --save

Copy the following snippet in your JS file and initialize the SDK; we have added the reference to the JSON file that we downloaded from the Firebase Admin Service account:

const admin = require('firebase-admin');const serviceAccount = require('./firebase/serviceAccountKey.json');admin.initializeApp({    credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount),    databaseURL: "https://demoproject-7cc0d.firebaseio.com"});

Now we'll just create Restful API ...

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