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Firebase Cookbook

You're reading from   Firebase Cookbook Over 70 recipes to help you create real-time web and mobile applications with Firebase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788296335
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Houssem Yahiaoui Houssem Yahiaoui
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Firebase - Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Firebase Real-Time Database 3. File Management with Firebase Storage 4. Firebase Authentication 5. Securing Application Flow with Firebase Rules 6. Progressive Applications Powered by Firebase 7. Firebase Admin SDK 8. Extend Firebase with Cloud Functions 9. We’re Done, Let’s Deploy 10. Integrating Firebase with NativeScript 11. Integrating Firebase with Android/iOS Natively 12. Hack Application's Growth 13. Adding Analytics and Maximizing Earnings 14. Firebase Cloud FireStore

Implementing file upload

We're going to cover how we can we implement file upload in our application following a really cool example we're going to build

The example contains one single application with a button that will open the file picker. Once the file is selected the Upload process will start, so let's see how we can make this process happen.

How to do it...

  1. To upload a file, we need to first create a new reference to the created file. We already know that we got a reference to the root folder, as we saw it earlier in this chapter. The code for creating a new reference to the created file is as follows:
      //Creating a new reference for the uploaded file.
let imageRef = packtRef.child(`images...
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