Firebase 3.0 with typescript

Question

I am trying to develop a web app with angular2 and firebase 3.0 authentication following the guidelines given by google. However all the guides for web have javascript examples.

I added below lines in my index.html

<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/live/3.0/firebase.js"></script>
var config = {
   apiKey: "AIzaSyCSfBMvAdEDpcm-z6gWp2XXXXXXXXXXXXX",
   authDomain: "fototrans-calculator.firebaseapp.com",
   databaseURL: "https://fototrans-calculator.firebaseio.com",
   storageBucket: "fototrans-calculator.appspot.com",
};
firebase.initializeApp(config);

But when i try to use

rootRef = firebase.database.ref();

I get an error on 'firebase' saying

[ts] Cannot find name 'firebase'.

Now I remember that I had installed firebase using typings for the previous version of Firebase. Do we have any such thing again for the new version of Firebase? Please guide.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

As of Firebase 3.2.1, the typings are included as part of the official NPM package:

https://firebase.google.com/support/release-notes/js#wzxhzdk4version_321_-_july_26_2016wzxhzdk5