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points by CharlieDigital 1 day ago | 0 comments

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).