---
title: Getting Started | Cloud Firestore
description: Hooks for integrating with Firestore.
---

# Getting Started

The `@react-query-firebase/firestore` package provides hooks querying,
subscribing and modifying collections and documents on Cloud Firestore.

## Installation

```bash
npm i --save @react-query-firebase/firestore
```

## Usage

To use the hooks, export a `Firestore` instance from your codebase, e.g:

```js
// src/firebase.js
import { initializeApp } from 'firebase/app';
import { getFirestore } from 'firebase/firestore';

const firebase = initializeApp({
  ...
});

export const firestore = getFirestore(firebase);
```

## Documentation

- [Querying Collections](/firestore/querying-collections)
- [Querying Documents](/firestore/querying-documents)
- [Data Mutation](/firestore/data-mutation)
- [Prefetching](/firestore/prefetching)
- [TypeScript](/firestore/typescript)