Creating your first Firebase application

To get started with Firebase, you will need to sign up and log in using their website: https://firebase.google.com/.

Go to the Firebase console (by clicking on GO TO CONSOLE), and then click on the Add project button:

You will then be asked some details, after which your new project should be created (and show up in this panel, such as the sensor-project project that is already created)

You can explore your project's console and take a look at the various features and add-ons that Firebase provides:

Installing the Firebase CLI

The Firebase CLI tools help us actually deploy and launch our code. To install the firebase CLI, run the command:

npm install -g firebase-tools

To test that it has been installed correctly, run this command, which should give you the version number of the installed files:

firebase --version

Logging in to Firebase on the command line

In order to use the CLI tools, you will have to log in and authorize the use of the Firebase CLI. Run the...