Set up Firebase

Check out the awesome getting started page on Firebase website

You'll need a Google account (we created a group account for our project)

1. Go to https://console.firebase.google.com/
2. Click "CREATE NEW PROJECT", give your project a name, and then click "CREATE PROJECT"
3. Go to your new project home page and click "Add Firebase to your web app"
4. Copy the config object into your database config file (you can also just use it as a script tag in you index.html, but we chose to put it into a separate .js file)

When you finish the steps above your config file should look something like this:

        var config = {
          apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
          authDomain: "YOUR_PROJECT_ID.firebaseapp.com",
          databaseURL: "https://YOUR_DATABASE_NAME.firebaseio.com",
          storageBucket: "YOUR_BUCKET.appspot.com",
        };
        firebase.initializeApp(config);
      

See runListeners page for more information about Firebase methods we used to interact with our database in real-time