firebase Using Firebase with Node Hello World Firebase Realtime Database in Node

Example

System Requirements:

• Node JS

Getting Started

1. First Go to Firebase Console and Create New Project.
2. After Creating the project, in project click on settings icon besides project Name in left sidebar and select Permissions.
3. On Permissions Page Click on Service accounts in left sidebar then click on Create Service Account
4. In the popup window enter your service account name and choose Account Role and select Furnish a new private key and after that select JSON and click Create(Leave Enable Google App Domain-wide Delegation Unchecked).
5. When you click create it will download a JSON file with your Account Credentials, just save the file Anywhere in your System.
6. Next step is to Create a Database in your Firebase Console for which Go to Firebase Console and click on Database in left-sidebar. After that just create a new Database Object with Name user_data with some dummy value.
7. Now your Firebase Database project is setup now simply copy following code in your project directory.

//Loading Firebase Package
var firebase = require("firebase");

/**
* Update your Firebase Project
* Credentials and Firebase Database
* URL
*/
firebase.initializeApp({
  serviceAccount: "<path to Firebase Credentials Json File>",
  databaseURL: "<Firebase Database URL>"
});  //by adding your credentials, you get authorized to read and write from the database


/**
* Loading Firebase Database and refering 
* to user_data Object from the Database
*/
var db = firebase.database();
var ref = db.ref("/user_data");  //Set the current directory you are working in

/**
* Setting Data Object Value
*/
ref.set([
{
    id:20,
    name:"Jane Doe",
    email:"[email protected]",
    website:"https://jane.foo.bar"
},
{
    id:21,
    name:"John doe",
    email:"[email protected]",
    website:"https://foo.bar"
}
]);

/**
* Pushing New Value
* in the Database Object
*/
ref.push({
    id:22,
    name:"Jane Doe",
    email:"[email protected]",
    website:"https://jane.foo.bar"
});

/**
* Reading Value from
* Firebase Data Object
*/
ref.once("value", function(snapshot) {
  var data = snapshot.val();   //Data is in JSON format.
  console.log(data);
});

8. Just change with the JSON Credentials file URL(For starters just copy the credentials file in Same folder and in index.js file just add the credentials File Name).
9. Next step is to change the in index.js with actual Firebase Database URL, you will be able to find this URL in Firebase Console in Database Tab, The URL will be like https://.firebaseio.com/.
10. The final step is to do

npm install firebase

11. After Executing above command NPM will install necessary packages required for Firebase. Finally to run and test project execute

node index.js

What does the project actually do?

The project loads the Data from cloud based Firebase Database. The project also demonstrates how to Write and Read data from a Firebase Data Object.

In order to view your data get updated in realtime, go to your console click on the project you made, and on the left, hit Database. There, you can see your data get updated in real-time, along with their values.