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invertase/react-native-firebase-starter
DEPRECATED: For RNFB v5 only.
A bootstrapped React Native app pre-wired to react-native-firebase v5 — Auth, Firestore, AdMob already configured so you don't spend the first day on boilerplate. It's been explicitly deprecated since 2021 and targets an ancient RN version, so this is purely historical.
The rename script (bin/rename.js) was a genuinely useful touch — renaming a React Native project across Android manifests, iOS plists, and Xcode files manually is a miserable task. Covering both iOS and Android from a single starter avoided the common trap of iOS-only templates. AdMob was pre-wired with a working sample App ID, which saved the usual debug session of figuring out why ads weren't initializing.
Deprecated since RNFB v6 dropped in 2019, last touched in 2021 — the Android Gradle setup, iOS Podfile, and RN version are all years behind current practice. The debug.keystore is committed directly to the repo, which is fine for a template but has burned people who forgot to swap it before release. There is effectively one test file that does nothing. Anyone using this today would immediately hit breaking changes in RN's new architecture and metro configuration.