When user creates account in my angular app, my app creates user account (using Firebase API) with email and password. But also I want to create new collection to hold more data like name, surname...
Each collection's name will have uid.
But I don't know how to force it?
db.createCollection('abcXdefX') doesn't exist.
I've no idea what to do. Please, help.
You cannot create empty collection, you have to create document inside. data model
function writeUserData(userId, name, email, imageUrl) {
firebase.database().ref('users/' + userId).set({
username: name,
email: email,
profile_picture : imageUrl
});
}
You can get user id in this way
var userId = firebase.auth().currentUser.uid;
For cloud firestore
db.doc(userId + '/data').set({
name: name,
email: email
});
firebase.database().ref(userId)db.collection(userId).doc("data").set({ name: "username" })I was trying to create a collection within a document and the accepted answer didn't work for me, but this did:
db
.collection("coll1")
.doc("doc1")
.collection("newCollectionName")
.doc("newDocName")
.set(data);
In Firestore, when you add a document to a non-existent collection, the collection gets created without needing to specifically create it. For example,
firebase.firestore().collection("new-coll").add({"Hello":"World"})
creates the collection new-coll if it does not exist and adds the document {"Hello": "World"} to it.
You can also create a document inside the collection. You don't have to create a different collection every time.
db.collection("users").doc("userid").set({
username: 'username',
password: 'password',
email: 'email',
age: 'age'
})
