Connect Your Application to the Emulator Suite
Explore how to set up and connect your web application to the Firebase Emulator Suite. Learn to instrument your app for local Firebase services emulators, understand the specific functions for authentication and database emulators, and manage emulator startup commands to test your app locally before deployment.
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We already got a brief overview of the Firebase Emulator Suite and how to set it up. Now, let’s find out how to connect and run applications on the Emulator Suite.
To begin using any Firebase service emulator, we must first instrument our application to talk to the service emulator. This is done with the help of a function imported from the service’s subpackage. For example, to instrument our application to communicate with the Firebase Auth emulator, we use the connectAuthEmulator function imported from the firebase/auth subpackage, as demonstrated below. This function takes the instance of ...