Setup

This document provides step-by-step instructions for setting up the Friendly Eats application for local development.

Prerequisites

To install the CLIs globally, run the following commands:

npm install -g @angular/cli
npm install -g firebase-tools

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-js.git
cd quickstart-js/firestore

Install dependencies:

npm install
(cd functions && npm install)
(cd scripts && npm install)

Configure Firebase:

The application can be run against the Firebase Local Emulator Suite or a production Firebase project.
- Emulator Suite: No configuration is needed. The necessary settings are in src/environments/environment.default.ts.
- Production Project:
  1. Create a Firebase project in the Firebase Console.
  2. Copy the firebaseConfig object from your project settings.
  3. Paste the firebaseConfig object into src/environments/environment.prod.ts.

Run the application:
- With emulators:
```
npm start
```
  This command will start the Firebase Emulator Suite and the Angular development server. The emulators are automatically populated with data from the app-data-seed directory on startup.
- Against a production project:
```
npm run production
```
View the application:

Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:4200.
Populating the database (optional):

If you need to add more mock data to your database, you can use the following commands:
- For emulators:
```
npm run populate-emulators
```
- For a production project:
```
npm run populate-production
```