AngularFire (for AngularJS)

Looking for the new AngularFire?: If you're using Angular you'll want to check out @angular/fire.

Status of this library: The Firebase team considers this library stable and feature complete. We will only consider Pull Requests that address severe bugs or security risks & are no longer taking feature requests. AngularJS will be in LTS until December 31st, 2021 after which this library will be deprecated.


AngularFire is the officially supported AngularJS binding for Firebase. Firebase is a backend service that provides data storage, file storage, authentication, and static website hosting for your Angular app.

AngularFire is a complement to the core Firebase client. It provides you with several Angular services:

  • $firebaseObject - synchronized objects
  • $firebaseArray - synchronized collections
  • $firebaseStorage - store and retrieve user-generated content like images, audio, and video
  • $firebaseAuth - authentication, user management, routing

Join our Firebase Google Group to ask questions, provide feedback, and share apps you've built with AngularFire.

Getting Started With Firebase

AngularFire requires Firebase in order to authenticate users and sync and store data. Firebase is a suite of integrated products designed to help you develop your app, grow your user base, and earn money. You can sign up here for a free account.

Downloading AngularFire

In order to use AngularFire in your project, you need to include the following files in your HTML:

<!-- AngularJS -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.1/angular.min.js"></script>

<!-- Firebase -->
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/3.6.6/firebase.js"></script>

<!-- AngularFire -->
<script src="https://cdn.firebase.com/libs/angularfire/2.3.0/angularfire.min.js"></script>

You can also install AngularFire via npm and Bower and its dependencies will be downloaded automatically:

$ npm install angularfire --save
$ bower install angularfire --save