Not obvious what databaseURL in config should be

[robations]

Hi, I'm new to Firebase and just created a web app in Firebase, but React Firebase is asking for databaseURL, which is not given in their copy-config panel. The keys I do have are:

• apiKey
• authDomain
• projectId
• storageBucket
• messagingSenderId
• appId

I tried adding a Cloud Firestore, but if this has a databaseURL it's not obvious where I would find it. I'm strongly suspecting this is something they have removed from their API, but React Firebase still thinks it's needed?

Another possibility is I need to create a Realtime Database, but from research so far, I'm not sure this is actually what I want to use.

[rohan-deshpande]

That value is present in your app config in Firebase. Go to the general section of your project settings and view the config, the databaseURL is there.

[robations]

Hi @rohan-deshpande Thanks for the reply. I presume Firebase have changed something because it's not shown in the settings for me. I found some advice on how to construct the URL from the database name and added it manually.

This is what I am given:

const firebaseConfig = {
  apiKey: "xxx",
  authDomain: "xxx.firebaseapp.com",
  projectId: "xxx",
  storageBucket: "xxx.appspot.com",
  messagingSenderId: "xxx",
  appId: "xxx"
};

[kua-as-exe]

Hi @robations. Did you setup the realtime database?

[robations]

@JorgeArreolaS I'm not using realtime. I suspect they now only add this to your config if you've explicitly enabled it.

I guess this might mean the databaseURL key should/could be an optional key? As a Firebase newby I didn't realise databaseURL referred to the Realtime DB, as opposed to the Firebase Store.

[davidhughhenrymack]

I set it to empty string, using Firestore.