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The flakey firebase local emulator is the bane of my existence, and poorly documented to boot. On top of the Googlized clickops, there's the whole Firebase vs
by laurieg 3y ago
The flakey firebase local emulator is the bane of my existence, and poorly documented to boot.
On top of the Googlized clickops, there's the whole Firebase vs Google cloud situation, where you end up having to drop down to "real" google cloud for certain specific features. The docs appear to be detailed but you often end up with more questions than answers.
If you are ever thinking about using firebase, give Supabase a try. The emulator works well, the dashboard is there for prototyping but you can just write SQL to clearly define your database and migrations. Since it's just postgres you have a clear route to leave Supabase if you should ever want to.
- habosa 3y agoJust curious, what’s flakey about it? I’m not at Google anymore but I was a core contributor to the Firebase emulators project when I was. I can think of many flaws with the emulators but flakey is a new one to me
- quickthrower2 3y agoIt often just crashed with an error. Now I am a Windows user, so MMMV, and this might be the reason. In some places the behaviour was slightly different and I had to work around that. I don't recall the specifics. And the idea of a test suite that starts the emulator, runs the tests and gives a result, that can reliably run.... well I gave up on that.