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Firestore and Firebase Storage

Explore how to use Firestore NoSQL database for flexible data storage and Firebase Storage for managing files like images within React Native applications. Understand the structure and benefits of Firestore collections and documents, and learn practical steps to upload and access files securely from Firebase Storage.

Firebase storage

Firebase storage is a cloud storage service. Often, we’ll need to store files in our applications. That file could be the user’s profile picture, other images, or something else. We need a place to store these images and access them later on.

Firebase storage stores our file in buckets that can be accessed later on using a hosted URL.

As we can see in the image above, we navigate to the storage section using the sidebar in ...