Firebase database configuration

Create a Firebase project

Create a Real-Time database

Set the database rules

Copy the database rules from the firebase_database_rules.json into the rules section of the Firebase real-time database. The file can be found in both the release binaries as well as the application's source code.

Create a Firebase Web App

Configure the server configuration file (appsettings.json / appsettings.Development.json)

Set the server to use Firebase as the database system

The server is pre-configured to use MySQL database by default. To set the server to use Firebase as its database system, set the value of the field use_firebase in the configuration file to true as shown below.

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 "use_firebase": true,
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Set the database url, api key, and authorisation domain

Copy the fields authDomain, databaseURL, and apiKey from the Firebase app configuration file into their respective fields within the server configuration file.

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  "firebase_database_url": "https://thetatest-57a1f-default-rtdb.firebaseio.com",
  "firebase_api_key": "AIzaSyC-r3ggHI84_f6MkRf5ZK9vxMkCGA26BW4",
  "firebase_auth_domain": "thetatest-57a1f.firebaseapp.com",
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Set the database admin token

Copy the database admin token from the Database Secrets section of the project section into its respective field within the configuration file as shown below.

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 "firebase_admin_token": "MBZuiQKDoNQ3ocZyhJNi7YWBTcA2FGbY8EyRsOSm",
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