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Initialize and Configure Firestore Instance

Explore how to initialize and configure a Firestore database instance for your cloud-native web application. Understand Firestore's NoSQL structure, how to load the Firestore SDK, and set up the database for secure, scalable data storage within your Firebase project.

Creating a Firestore instance

We have already created a Firestore Instance in the chapter: Initialize the Firebase CLI.

Important: Firebase offers two database modes.

  • Datastore
  • Native

When we created the Firebase project initially, Datastore was selected automatically when we chose a GCP Resource ...