Is there an example of a database connection with PlayCanvas?

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Hi @Axel_Saucedo,

There isn’t an example, that I know of, to demonstrate adding Firebase to a Playcanvas project. But it’s quite easy, here are some steps:

  1. Add the Firebase SDKs to your Playcanvas project. Download the firebase .js files for the relevant components (firebase-app.js, firebase-auth.js etc.) and upload them to your Playcanvas project.

You can find links to those files in this guide, step 3:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/web/setup

  1. Make sure all Firebase SDK scripts are first in your scripts loading order:

https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/user-manual/scripting/loading-order/

  1. Grab the firebase config object from your google firebase dashboard. It will look like this:
var firebaseConfig = {
  apiKey: "api-key",
  authDomain: "project-id.firebaseapp.com",
  databaseURL: "https://project-id.firebaseio.com",
  projectId: "project-id",
  storageBucket: "project-id.appspot.com",
  messagingSenderId: "sender-id",
  appId: "app-id",
  measurementId: "G-measurement-id",
};
  1. You are ready to initialize the firebase app, you can put this code in any regular Playcanvas script. The initialize method will be a good place for that:
MyScript.prototype.initialize = function(){

   var firebaseConfig = {
      // ...
   };

   // Initialize Firebase
   firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);

};
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