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points by nfw2 2 days ago | 0 comments

> then won't Google simply improve on these regressions using their decades of cloud database expertise

The developer experience of trying to emualate firebase locally has always been horrible, going on fifteen years, so I would guess no, they won't because they don't care.

[–] CharlieDigital 1 day ago

Would disagree here given that Firebase is the only one of the three owned platform toolkits (Azure, AWS, GCP) that has a really complete first party emulator suite.

[–] nfw2 1 day ago

I would agree that Firebase is better now than most vendor-locked dbs which often don't have an emulator at all.

But local developer experience is still not good compared to Postgres or Mongo.

[–] CharlieDigital 1 day ago

That feels like it's more a function of the lack of a query UI whereas Pg and Mongo have a lot of options.

I used Firefoo for a while and Google should just buy that product and ship it with Firebase. Otherwise, I have no issues with local Firestore emulation; everything works as I expected it with a few edge cases.

[–] miserve 1 day ago

Have you ever come across Fuego or had a chance to try it? It supports complex Firestore queries, including Firestore Enterprise pipeline queries and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR).