Firebase storage security rules 400 error issue “Permission denied. Could not access bucket xxxxx-****.appspot.com”

Question

I keeps getting message error from firebase link saying 400 error with my firebase storage upload in my react project when trying to upload photo... everything were working

Answer 1

I noticed that this problem was occurring on projects which didn't have the Firebase* APIs and Services enabled on the Google App Engine dashboard (see screenshot below). So I manually enabled the APIs related to firebase storage.

I don't understand why some APIs and services are enabled automatically for some projects and not for others. There doesn't seem to be specific instructions on the Firebase - GCP integration steps that talk about needing to explicitly enable the firebase APIs.

This other SO thread was helpful to shed light on this apparent inconsistency