Using the Firebase Local Emulator with Expo's managed workflow

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React Native Firebase

While the Local Emulator Suite is super easy to set up on a web app project, it's a little bit trickier for React Native / Expo. The standard React Native x Firebase library (aptly named react-native-firebase) requires you to eject from the Expo managed workflow, so we'll need to use the Web SDK.

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Firebase

For this post, I'm going to assume you've gone and set up a Firebase project on their site. You'll need a Web project as we've mentioned above. You'll be given a big JSON object of config data, so let's copy and paste that into your web.config.firebase property in your config file (app.json or app.config.ts):.

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