How to Structure Your Data | Get to know Cloud Firestore #5

It's important to get your Cloud Firestore data structure in order. Knowing when to use Maps, Arrays and Subcollections can get a little tricky. In the last episode of Get to Know Cloud Firestore, we focused mainly on theory. But now, we’re going to put that into practice and show you how you can structure your Cloud Firestore data the right way for your app. Let us know what you think in the comments below, and stay tuned for the next episode which focuses on security rules!

[arvind]

Hi Todd from 2020. You might want to add that we can now search for multiple attributes in an array using the 'array contains any' query! Great videos!

[snsistr]

Love this kind of tutorial. No code, just explaining concepts of how to structure data. Looking forward to the security rules video.

[dashandblast]

This series is the best. These last two videos in particular have been especially helpful, addressing questions I've been thinking about for months. I look forward to the next installment.

[davebeazer]

Love how you're keeping these videos current. Well done 2019 Todd

[lukegordon]

This is one of the best technical talks I've seen. Super clean, super simple to follow, and really explains the trade offs. Thanks for making Firebase best practices/structure easy to understand!

[PeterFurstenberg]

Trying to make sense of the firebase universe, this has been a massively informative series so far in understanding how it all works! So Thank you. PLEASE update the series with understanding permissions soon!

[garypiong]

Please make more videos on this series; they're all so useful!

[theanimalix]

Well done Todd 2018 and 2019, love your vids. Can't wait for Todd 2020! :)

[remib.]

This is a great series of videos! Clear, fun and very informative. Thanks!

[RayDaly]

Hope you do How to Structure Your Data Part 2. This one is great. I'd like to see coverage of using local storage IndexedDB etc with Firestore, Performance and displaying results, very large versus very small query results. Data Structure is such a critical part of app development.

[joemac]

Very informative video and thanks for keeping the content up-to-date. Love the discussion around best practices too because these things can be hard to find!

[rabiahamouda]

Thanks for this amazing video and for the whole series! it helped me a lot, looking forward to the next video about security rules.

[tonyalbanese]

Thank you for this video. I am new to development and often doubt how I want to do things. Watching this reminds me that that there is often no one best way to do things.

[carsonskjerdal]

This was incredibly helpful! Much appreciated, will be watching again.

[jesselima_dev]

Very nice video! Important concepts about how and when to apply which data modelling approach. I totally agree that we as developers need to know what data will be used in the application and how it's gonna be used. Also what kind of queries are inside the gather requirements for the app. Once you know what data you will need to retrieve and how often you will do it, then it will more clear about what model to use.

[TheL]

Thanks, Great video. bring on the much needed security rules video pls!

[dapkman]

Great video. thank you! So much useful information and it's so interesting to watch at the same time!

[BillyNoodles]

big fan of the teaching style, going over things more than once

[anoopisaac]

Hey Todd, thanks for the awesome tutorial. In my application I have list of users and all the pages that they own. There are minimal page queries that span multiple users, so following your recommendation, can I go with storing pages as a sub collection to users? just wondering whether the fact this its being 'User' object would have any impact on the structure?

[ublr]

This tutorial is so good, even you are not using firebase still a good video about how to structuring data and designing system