The admin tools can be found at https://firebase.google.com/. Once there, in the top-right corner, click on the GO TO CONSOLE link. You should have a Gmail account. If you do, then you have a Firebase account as well, and you only need to set up the database. Then, you should choose to create a project; give it a title of your choice and your location.

It should look like this:

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Once you've done this, you will be taken to the admin page, which looks like this:

The preceding screenshot displays the left menu, and then to the right, you would have a content pane. What content is displayed on the right varies based on what you choose on the left. As you can see, you can control a lot of things. Your most important options when starting to craft your database are:

• Authentication: Here, you set up what kind of authentication you want: no authentication, username/password, social logins, and so on.
• Database: Here, you design what the database should look like. There are also some tabs in here that let us control authorization for the database collections.

The other options are interesting, but for the purposes of this section, this is something beyond our scope.