Missing information on how to seed the Firestore Database?

[oscklm]

Hey,

Is it on purpose, that there is no info in the course - nor any to be found on the repo, about setting up the database?

I'm thinking in terms of it already having data in the video. I think this could confuse quite a few people.

[nichemediapubs]

Agree. Did you make any progress with it @oscarklm ? I am stuck on it currently

[morgalorgadingdong]

I think you guys encountered the same hiccup I did. You do not have to manually add any data to your data base, but you do have to adjust the rules with the FireBase UI to allow read/write permissions. The most simple, and straightforward change to make to your rules would be to set "allow read, write: if false" to true.

rules_version = '2';

service cloud.firestore {
match /databases/{database}/documents {
match /{document=**} {
allow read, write: if true;
}
}
}

[jb-oe]

I'm also having issues with this. I have tried adding the rule above but it hasn't made any difference.

Sorted it, I deleted the user and started again and it worked.

[vhazbun]

Same here, I don't see the users collection and usernames collection.

[jb-oe]

Same here, I don't see the users collection and usernames collection.

@morgalorgadingdong code sorted it for me but I had to delete the users from authentication and create them again. Which when I think about it, its obvious but Firebase is all new to me so the code from @morgalorgadingdong was essential.

To add. this fixed my problem. It is done by navigating to "firestore database" in the left drawer, then selecting the rules tab and changing 'false' to 'true'

[krzysztofpodmokly]

This worked for me

rules_version = '2';

service cloud.firestore {
  match /databases/{database}/documents {
    match /{document=**} {
      allow read, write: if request.auth != null;
    }
  }
}

[ejam4040]

Firebase auto selected my database the new datastore type. I had to switch to naitve before I could get any of the above to work. Then updating the rules as mentioned finally fixed the issues and the username check/creation is working.