Firebase-admin initializeApp

Firebase is a suite of services that offers all elements necessary to serve a CMS … and at virtually infinitly high performance.

In the Firebase console, open Settings > Service Accounts . Click Generate New Private Key, then confirm by clicking Generate Key. Securely store the JSON file containing the key. When authorizing via a service account, you have two choices for providing the credentials to your application.

You should use the Firebase web SDK in your React app. Correct. You can host some privileged operations in a server (using admin SDK), and get your client-side app to contact the server when those operations are needed. You can use admin .

The Admin SDK is a set of server libraries that lets you interact with Firebase from privileged environments to perform actions like: Read and write Realtime Database data with full admin privileges .

FirebaseToolbox is a Firebase admin panel GUI client . Firebasetoolbox helps you search, filter, create, edit, delete Firebase Firestore documents and Firebase Auth users.