The Firebase Admin SDK provides more power than the existing power you have by offering privileged access to a different section in your console. From sending a notification to having the power to manipulate the user accounts, it also manipulates the Realtime Database and manages security via token generation and verification. It's the most suitable solution for application admin dashboards that can be applicable today.
This SDK is available in different ecosystems from NodeJS to Java and also over Python, with different implementation levels. The knowledge of using NodeJS can give us ultimate access to all the supported functionalities, which is not the case for other ecosystems. That's exactly what we'll work with; we'll use the Firebase Admin SDK in NodeJS context.
In this chapter, we'll see how we can manage our way through the SDK and...