How to Connect Firebase to Your Flutter App Using the Firebase CLI: A Step-by-Step Guide

2 min readSep 18, 2023

What is Firebase?

Firebase is a powerful platform for developing mobile and web applications, and integrating it with your Flutter app can supercharge your project. In this step-by-step guide, we will walk you through the process of connecting Firebase to your Flutter app using the Firebase CLI.

Prerequisites:

Flutter is installed
you have a Firebase account. if not, create by visiting https://console.firebase.google.com/

Now, let’s dive into the steps to connect Firebase to your Flutter app:

Step 1: Install the required tools

After installing Firebase CLI, Log into Firebase using your Google account by running the following command:

firebase login

Now, Install the FlutterFire CLI by running the following command from any directory:

dart pub global activate flutterfire_cli

Step 2: Configure your app to use Firebase

Now, go to your project directory and run the following command.

flutterfire configure

Note: Whenever you change something in your Firebase project on the website, don't forget to run the configure command again. It will keep the Firebase configuration up to date.
After running the above command it will ask you to choose a project on Firebase that you want to use.

Select you project that you want to use and press Enter . Also, you can create a new project by Firebase CLI.
Now, it will ask for platforms in which your app should have to work.
you can select or remove platform by space key

It will generate firebase_options.dart file in your lib folder by which you can now use Firebase in your Flutter app.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we’ve covered a comprehensive step-by-step guide on how to seamlessly integrate Firebase with your Flutter app using the Firebase CLI. Firebase offers a robust set of tools that can take your app to the next level in terms of functionality, user engagement, and data management.

I hope this tutorial helped you to add Firebase to your project.

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