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Help with Firebase Realtime Database

Micah Lindley on August 28, 2019

Hi guys, I’ve been working on my Checkmark project lately. Dabbling with Google’s Firebase, I added Google authentication to let users sync thei...
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Ola' John Ajiboye •

Hey, I can help with this. How have you tried to get this to the Firestore?. I can't really see the code that connects to your Firestore. You need to first create a database in Firestore database then sync then store the list in the database. Syncing to real-time is a breeze from there.

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Micah Lindley •

Thanks! I’ve created a Firebase Realtime database. Should I use Firestore instead?

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Ola' John Ajiboye •

No, it's just fine. Now if you got to your database. You will need to get the collection by name in your app.js. You would do that like so if your collection name is "projects":

// this will return all document in this collection
const allProjects = db.collection("projects").get()

//if you need to store something in the collection first store them in a variable in your code and then store them like below.
 allProjects.set({// your data in here})

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore...
firebase.google.com/docs/firestore...

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Ola' John Ajiboye •

You know what, I'll just probably make a pull request to show how you can do it.

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Micah Lindley • • Edited

Thanks a lot!!! I’m currently working with all my Javascript in my HTML, but it is getting a little crowded. So should I move it to an app.js file? (I’ve also just followed you on GitHub)

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Ola' John Ajiboye •

Yea, that's what I will suggest. I had some examples with VanillaJS/Jquery -Firebase on my Github but I deleted them, I will try to create an example for you tomorrow.