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README.md


React Native Firebase


RNFirebase is a light-weight layer sitting on-top of the native Firebase libraries for both iOS and Android which mirrors the Firebase Web SDK as closely as possible.

Although the Firebase Web SDK library will work with React Native, it is mainly built for the web.

RNFirebase provides a JavaScript bridge to the native Firebase SDKs for both iOS and Android. Firebase will run on the native thread, allowing the rest of your app to run on the JS thread. The Firebase Web SDK also runs on the JS thread, therefore potentially affecting the frame rate causing jank with animations, touch events etc. All in all, RNFirebase provides much faster performance (~2x) over the web SDK.

The native SDKs also allow us to hook into device sdk's which are not possible with the web SDK, for example crash reporting, offline realtime database support, analyics and more!


Supported Firebase Features

The Web SDK column indicates what modules from the Firebase Web SDK are usable within React Native.

Firebase Features v1 v2 Web SDK
AdMob
Analytics            
App Indexing          
Authentication
Cloud Messaging
Crash Reporting
Dynamic Links
Invites
Performance Monitoring
Realtime Database
- Offline Persistance
Remote Config
Storage

Supported versions - Firebase / React Native

The table below shows the minimum supported versions of the Firebase SDKs and React Native

v1 v2
React Native 0.36.0+ 0.40.0 +
Firebase Android SDK 10.2.0+ 11.0.0 +
Firebase iOS SDK 3.15.0+ 4.0.0 +