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Set a new document and store and sync data into the Cloud Firestore

Set a new document and store and sync data into the Cloud Firestore

From the course: Building Production-Ready React Apps: Setup to Deployment with Firebase

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Set a new document and store and sync data into the Cloud Firestore

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- [Instructor] To create a new document, we're going to follow the documentation here. So basically what you need to do is to create a reference with the instance of the database, specify the name of the collection, then an index, and then you're going to use this built-in function method provided by the SDK to specify your new documents. So let's copy those two lines and we're going to do the same in our firestore module. We just need to adapt to our needs because here the goal is to set a new documents for any new upload of images. So I'm going to name this one docRef, and here I'm going to specify stocks for the name of the collection. And here I'm going to use a random index, randomIndex, I'm going to do that with JavaScript Math.floor, and that's going to be Math.random. And I'm going to allow to generate from a very large number like so. And here I'm going to replace with, I'm going to use the back tick because…

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