For using Firebase Admin SDK, we'll need a Firebase project where we have service account to communicate with the Firebase services and a configuration file that includes the service account's credentials.
To configure the Firebase Admin SDK, follow these steps:
- Log in to Firebase Console, select the <project_name> project, and click on the setting icon in Project Overview:
Overview tab
- Go to the Service Accounts tab inside Project Settings.
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Click on the GENERATE PRIVATE KEY button at the bottom of Firebase admin section; it will generate the JSON file that contains the service account credentials:
This JSON file contains very sensitive information about your service account and private encryption key. So never share and store it in a public repository; keep it confidential. If we lose this file because of any reason then, we can generate it again, and we'll no longer access Firebase Admin SDK with the old file.