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Unity WebGL form posts to Cloud Firestore with Firebase JS SDK
My goal is to build a WebGL game in Unity that has a specific form and upon submission that form posts data into one of the Firebase storage solutions. After reading this article, it's clear to me I need to use Cloud Firestore instead of Realtime Database. Good news is that as of of March 2020, one of the team members wrote,
we released Firebase Unity SDK 6.12.0 which includes an alpha release of Firestore.
Thing is, Firebase's Unity SDK isn't for WebGL builds and, for someone going through that thought process, could use Firebase JS SDK (spam alert). From looking at the release notes, one can see that Firebase JS SDK supports Firestore and so this has all the conditions in place for a quick solution.
So, I've gone to Firebase console, created a project, a Web app to use Firebase JS SDK and this process gave as output the following code
<!-- The core Firebase JS SDK is always required and must be listed first -->
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/7.17.1/firebase-app.js"></script>
<!-- TODO: Add SDKs for Firebase products that you want to use
https://firebase.google.com/docs/web/setup#available-libraries -->
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/7.17.1/firebase-analytics.js"></script>
<script>
// Your web app's Firebase configuration
var firebaseConfig = {
apiKey: "",
authDomain: "",
databaseURL: "",
projectId: "",
storageBucket: "",
messagingSenderId: "",
appId: "",
measurementId: ""
};
// Initialize Firebase
firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
firebase.analytics();
</script>
with a message saying
Copy and paste these scripts into the bottom of your tag, but before you use any Firebase services
In addition to that, this is how to Call JavaScript functions from Unity scripts and this is a Cloud Firestore JS Sample App.
Given this information, how can then the form be created?
There is a new Firebase asset, which supports a lot already! Auth | Analytics | Firestore | Functions
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/network/api-for-firebase-189910
