Uploading Files to Storage

Explore how to upload files to Firebase Cloud Storage by creating storage references with the ref function and using the uploadBytes method. Understand how to handle file metadata and view uploaded files in the Firebase console, while learning about limitations in upload resumption.

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Simple file upload
Practice exercise
Steps to perform

To carry out any operation on a Cloud Storage bucket, we must create a referenceA reference is a pointer to a file on our database. to the specific path of the file—including a file nam—within our bucket. To do this, we use the ref function imported from the firebase/storage subpackage. This function returns a storage reference to the location in the bucket that corresponds to the provided URL.

The ref function takes the storage instance as its first argument. As an optional second parameter, it can take a URL to the ...

1.Introduction

2.Get Started with Firebase

3.Firebase Authentication

4.The Firebase Realtime Database

5.Cloud Firestore

6.Cloud Storage for Firebase

7.The Firebase CLI

8.Cloud Functions

9.Environment Variables in Firebase

10.Firebase Security Rules

11.Firebase Hosting

Assessment

12.Conclusion

13.Appendix

Uploading Files to Storage