Firebase Admin SDK
Official SDK for building server-side Firebase applications.
SDKs for hosted services npm Apache-2.0
How Firebase Admin SDK is used
Firebase Admin SDK is a dependency in 47 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.0% of the 4,818 JavaScript/TypeScript ones), #15 of 253 in sdks for hosted services. Counting the projects our scan samples by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983), it appears in 228; those are left out of every share on this page. Projects that use it most often also use Firebase (76.6%), Lucide React (63.8%), React (80.9%).
Firebase Admin SDK popularity over time
Gid Score 58: downloads 80, use in agent projects 63, GitHub stars 21, downloads trend 59 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Firebase Admin SDK
| Firebase | 76.6% of Firebase Admin SDK projects · 48.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| Lucide React | 63.8% of Firebase Admin SDK projects · 3.2× more than average |
| React | 80.9% of Firebase Admin SDK projects · 2.5× more than average |
| date-fns | 42.6% of Firebase Admin SDK projects · 4.1× more than average |
| Recharts | 40.4% of Firebase Admin SDK projects · 4.4× more than average |
| TypeScript | 91.5% of Firebase Admin SDK projects · 1.7× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 70.2% of Firebase Admin SDK projects · 2.2× more than average |
| dotenv | 48.9% of Firebase Admin SDK projects · 3.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Firebase Admin SDK as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install firebase-admin |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (27), Next.js (17), React Native / Expo (2), Flutter (1) |
| Example projects | JesusFilm/core, adamsiwiec1/mcp-sse-authenticated-cloud-run, DaveGold/mcp-metadata-demo |
Alternatives to Firebase Admin SDK
In our scan, none of the most used tools in SDKs for hosted services does the same job as Firebase Admin SDK: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in SDKs for hosted services: Supabase JS Supabase SSR AWS SDK for JavaScript (S3) Resend Stripe (JavaScript) Supabase CLI Firebase Stripe.js