Provide Firebase in React
Explore how to connect Firebase with your React app by using React's Context API to provide a single Firebase instance. Understand why this approach prevents multiple instances and simplifies testing, allowing components to access Firebase easily. This lesson helps you establish a foundational setup for integrating Firebase functionality across your React app.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
In the previous lessons, we created a Firebase class but we have not used it in our React application yet. In this lesson, we’ll connect Firebase with the React world.
Different Approaches
The simpler approach would be to create a Firebase instance with the Firebase class and then import the instance (or class) in every React component where it’s needed, but that is not a good approach for two reasons:
- It will be more difficult to test our React components.
- Firebase should only be