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Initialize & Configure the Emulator

Explore how to initialize and configure the Firebase Local Emulator Suite to run Firestore and Hosting locally. Understand setting environment variables and SDK configuration for efficient local testing and development of your cloud-native web application.

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Initialize the emulators

In your terminal, start with creating a new branch:

git switch -c add-firebase-emulators

Navigate to services/web/firebase. You first need to login to Firebase:

npm run firebase:login

Now, initialize the emulators with this command:

./node_modules/.bin/firebase init emulators

The wizard already recognized that we use Firestore and Hosting. Press “Enter” to ...