January 2024: Firestore sum and average operations, and best practices for Firebase Cloud Messaging

Welcome to the January 2024 edition of Firebase Release Notes. In this video, puf discusses updates to Firestore, from support for multiple databases being generally available, to the use sum/average in Node.JS Cloud Functions and Flutter, to index scans in Key Visualizer being now generally available as well, and much more!

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:12 - Firestore: support for multiple databases is generally available
0:45 - Firestore: use sum/average in Node.JS Cloud Functions
1:15 - Firestore: use sum/average in Flutter apps
1:43 - Firestore: now available in Belgium and Dammam data centers
2:16 - Firestore: Index scans in Key Visualizer are now GA
2:35 - Best practices when sending FCM messages at scale
3:48 - Conclusion

Resources:

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Speaker: Frank van Puffelen
Products Mentioned: Firebase

[mahmood]

When will we hear the best news of full-text search in Firestore? 😔

[alanschwarzlopez]

Firestore keeps getting better and better. I'd love to see full-text search built into it, without the need for a third-party server..

[JuanRodriguezNushio]

Firebase functions test still requires up to Firebase admin sdk 11, so we cant upgrade to 12 yet :-(

[opaakash]

as i clicked on go to console in firebase i get a error Your operation was forbidden. please hepl me