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Programmatically instantiate and modify Firebase instances.


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What is firebase-admin?

The firebase-admin npm package is a server-side library that allows Node.js applications to interact with Firebase services such as Firestore, Firebase Realtime Database, Firebase Authentication, and Firebase Cloud Messaging. It provides administrative privileges to perform operations like creating and managing users, setting security rules, and accessing database services programmatically.

What are firebase-admin's main functionalities?

Authentication

This feature allows you to create and manage users in Firebase Authentication. The code sample demonstrates how to create a new user with specific attributes.

admin.auth().createUser({
  email: 'user@example.com',
  emailVerified: false,
  password: 'secretPassword',
  displayName: 'John Doe',
  photoURL: 'http://www.example.com/12345678/photo.png',
  disabled: false
})
.then(function(userRecord) {
  console.log('Successfully created new user:', userRecord.uid);
})
.catch(function(error) {
  console.log('Error creating new user:', error);
});

Database

This feature enables you to interact with Firestore, a NoSQL database. The code sample shows how to add a new document to a collection in Firestore.

var db = admin.firestore();
var docRef = db.collection('users').doc('alovelace');

var setAda = docRef.set({
  first: 'Ada',
  last: 'Lovelace',
  born: 1815
});

Realtime Database

This feature allows you to interact with Firebase Realtime Database. The code sample demonstrates how to set data in the database.

var db = admin.database();
var ref = db.ref('server/saving-data/fireblog');
var usersRef = ref.child('users');
usersRef.set({
  alanisawesome: {
    date_of_birth: 'June 23, 1912',
    full_name: 'Alan Turing'
  },
  gracehop: {
    date_of_birth: 'December 9, 1906',
    full_name: 'Grace Hopper'
  }
});

Cloud Messaging

This feature is used to send notifications and messages to users through Firebase Cloud Messaging. The code sample illustrates how to send a message to a device with a specific registration token.

var registrationToken = 'YOUR_REGISTRATION_TOKEN';

var message = {
  data: {
    score: '850',
    time: '2:45'
  },
  token: registrationToken
};

admin.messaging().send(message)
  .then((response) => {
    console.log('Successfully sent message:', response);
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    console.log('Error sending message:', error);
  });

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firebase-admin

Programmatically instantiate and modify Firebase instances.

Why?

For automated testing, mostly.

Install

npm install --save firebase-admin

Use

var FirebaseAccount = require('firebase-admin');
var Firebase = require('firebase');
var account = new FirebaseAccount('me@example.com', 'password');
account.ready.then(function() {
  account.createDatabase('new-instance-name')
  .then(function(instance) {
    var fb = new Firebase(instance.toString());
  })
  .catch(function(err) {
    console.error('Oops, error creating instance:', err);
  });
});

Documentation

There's JSDoc-generated API documentation.

Develop

git clone https://github.com/casetext/firebase-admin
cd firebase-admin
npm test

Please jshint. That is all.

Caveats

  • This package uses Firebase's own APIs. You can't do anything with it you can't already do in the admin tools and Forge.
  • Do not abuse the Firebase service. It's amazing and the people who work there are amazing.

I :heartbeat: Firebase

Big whoop, wanna fight about it?

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Last updated on 16 Jul 2014

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