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Can I deploy to Firebase without creating realtime database

I'm trying to make first deploy to firebase from NodeJS project and I haven't set up realtime database because I'm planning on using Firestore only. However when I run firebase deploy from project terminal it throws me this error - It looks like you haven't created a Realtime Database instance in this project before. Please run firebase init database to create your default Realtime Database instance. Can I avoid creating Realtime database and still being able to deploy? Firebase configs used(obviously I ran yarn build beforehand):

const firebaseConfig = {
  apiKey: "[API_KEY]",
  authDomain: "[AUTH_DOMAIN]",
  projectId: "[PROJECT_ID]",
  messagingSenderId: "[SENDER_ID]",
  appId: "[APP_ID]",
};
Solution

  • If anyone else makes this rookie mistake - be careful not to mistake "database" configuration in firebase.json with "firestore". The "database" configures Realtime Database instead of Firestore