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.

[ghost]

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.