Motivation

React's Context management is great for keeping a Firebase Singleton for your application. By also setting up a Context specifically for Sessions, you can make sure that certain components are only accessible via successful authentication.
If you are initialising firebase like this 
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import firebase from "firebase/app";
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import "firebase/firestore";
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import "firebase/auth";
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import "firebase/storage";
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import "firebase/functions";
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​
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const firebaseConfig = {
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  apiKey: process.env.REACT_APP_API_KEY,
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  authDomain: process.env.REACT_APP_AUTH_DOMAIN,
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  databaseURL: process.env.REACT_APP_DATABASE_URL,
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  projectId: process.env.REACT_APP_PROJECT_ID,
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  storageBucket: process.env.REACT_APP_STORAGE_BUCKET,
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  messagingSenderId: process.env.REACT_APP_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID,
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  appId: process.env.REACT_APP_APP_ID,
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  measurementId: process.env.REACT_APP_MEASUREMENT_ID
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};
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​
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// Initialize Firebase
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firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
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​
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export const db = firebase.firestore();
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export const functions = firebase.functions();
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​
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firebase.functions().useFunctionsEmulator('http://localhost:4001') 
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export default firebase;
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Using these Create React App Env in a .env (added to .gitignore)
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# Firebase
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REACT_APP_API_KEY=""
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REACT_APP_AUTH_DOMAIN=""
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REACT_APP_DATABASE_URL=""
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REACT_APP_PROJECT_ID=""
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REACT_APP_STORAGE_BUCKET=""
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REACT_APP_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=""
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Or
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REACT_APP_API_KEY=""
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REACT_APP_AUTH_DOMAIN=""
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REACT_APP_DATABASE_URL=""
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REACT_APP_PROJECT_ID=""
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REACT_APP_STORAGE_BUCKET=""
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REACT_APP_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=""
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REACT_APP_APP_ID=""
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REACT_APP_MEASUREMENT_ID=""
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and importing it in your React app side code

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...
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import firebase, { db } from "../../Firebase.js";
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you might be getting this warning message in the console.
@firebase/app: Warning: Firebase is already defined in the global scope. Please make sure Firebase library is only loaded once.
There's a better implementation as shown in the next section, using React context and higher order components.

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Firebase React Context setup

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