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Hi HN! About a year ago we started using Cloud Firestore at work. And while I love it for its amazing realtime and effortless scaling capabilities, I grew more

by xathis 5y ago

Hi HN! About a year ago we started using Cloud Firestore at work. And while I love it for its amazing realtime and effortless scaling capabilities, I grew more and more frustrated with the limitation in tooling around it. No way to query from shell, export collections, rename docs, edit nested field names, … One day I had enough and pitched an idea to a friend: to create the experience I wanted to see. Luckily he was all in and we continued to spend our Corona lockdown hacking together an Electron app in TypeScript that makes my work delightful again! A few months later and we're glad to announce that Firefoo is now live for everyone to use! Some features include - Table View - Export to JSON and CSV - JavaScript Query Shell - Batch Edit Documents - Geo Point Map We'd love to hear your thoughts and will be around in the comments all day! - Mathis & Moritz

mritchie712 5y ago
Looks great! How did you make the decision to go Electron vs. a web app?
- xathis 5y ago
  Thanks! It's for security reasons. We want to keep all the data locally on the user's computer, so your data will never touch our or a third party's server (other than Google). If we piped the requests through a backend, nobody could verify that we're not reading the content of your data or secrets.