Creating a Firestore client (async)

Creating a Firestore client (async).

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• Add and update data
• Create a Firestore database by using a server client library
• Getting data

Code sample

Python

To authenticate to Firestore, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

from google.cloud import firestore

# The `project` parameter is optional and represents which project the client
# will act on behalf of. If not supplied, the client falls back to the default
# project inferred from the environment.
db = firestore.AsyncClient(project="my-project-id")

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