Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions, & more! #AskFirebase

Another week, and another episode of #AskFirebase where we answer all your burning Firebase questions! On this episode, Jen Person invites Rachel Saunders, Technical Writer for Firebase. Learn about what Rachel’s job entails, an example of when to use a Cloud Firestore Trigger, Subcollections in Firestore, and whether you can update security rules from Cloud Functions. Watch to learn more and subscribe to the channel to stay up to date with the Firebase team.

[Firebase]

1:09 “#AskFirebase Using the restaurant reviews example, can I use cloud functions to automatically "denormalize" this data when update some user?”

2:28 “Should chat messages be appended to an array or as individual document in subcollection in #firestore ? #askfirebase”

3:40 “#AskFirebase Is there a way to update security rules (for Realtime dbs or Firestore) from cloud functions? Imagine I have multiple message boards, dynamically created and I want only some members to have write access”

[luciusrex]

Project documentation can only be as good as the project's technical writers! I'm sure Rachel is going to make firebase docs even better!

[luciusrex]

Yay! Another #AskFirebase! It's not even Christmas yet! I love you guys!

[codinginflow]

Storing chat messages in an array has a lot of downsides. You awalys have to retrieve all chat messages at once, you can hit your 1mb/document limit, you can't really query it properly and you have a 1 write per second limit on a document, no? I can't see how this works with a chat app.

[camstuart]

Great stuff, a colleague of mine and I were just speaking the other day about how good the GCP and Angular docs are. So it will be great to see how firebase improves.

[SamiullahKhan]

I want update document Id, that comes from Firestore. Is there a way to have access to that futureID, so I can send with my document rather than making extra another request. Normally my flow is to add the document and that update id of the document. I wish if there is a way to skip the updating ID process.

[kell]

can i use batch commit in cloud function?

[GuitarristaBla]

#AskFirebase How can I add a document to a FireStore collection from a cloud function?

[mahaltech]

#AsKFirebase Same Question again until I get Answer
is Firebase Remote Config Api
Support c# or vb.net

[chriswilson]

I was disappointed that functions go dormant if not used for 30 days.