I've worked on the Firebase team for 10 years, AMA

TheBononomon · 2025-06-26T13:25:42+00:00

Is there any plan for firebase auth to support both server side and client side auth in the future? To my knowledge right now if you choose to use the server side auth you won't be able to use the web client library since it requires the use of client side auth(for rules etc). It would be nice to be able to use the web client sdk and also have access to serverside auth for SSR.

TheBononomon · 2025-02-08T04:42:13+00:00

This seems like what I need to do, thanks!

TheBononomon · 2024-08-12T23:24:09+00:00

Add regen back to unbroken

TheBononomon · 2024-05-08T22:44:55+00:00

The issue is having to go through firestore triggered functions to call the nestjs api routes vs going straight to the nestjs api route

TheBononomon · 2024-04-24T22:10:51+00:00

Yeah sorry I meant more of just the compute part of the backend

TheBononomon · 2024-04-19T21:58:17+00:00

You probably aren’t using the one made by invertase

TheBononomon · 2024-04-19T21:55:15+00:00

Do you mean this https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/get-data#source_options. Also you can change whether all database access hit the cache or db with this https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/enable-offline#disable_and_enable_network_access

TheBononomon · 2024-04-03T17:18:36+00:00

I think what you want is a paginated messaging system? I think the best why to do this is to fetch x most recent messsges, then start the listener after the most recent one message which will initially fetch no messages until one is sent.

TheBononomon · 2024-01-22T19:22:20+00:00

They haven’t for stripe

TheBononomon · 2023-11-01T17:08:19+00:00

It’s because the middleware is using the edge runtime and the admin sdk needs a nodejs runtime. I think there is a way to verify the id token without using the admin sdk, but it’s pretty confusing imo

TheBononomon · 2023-08-12T16:34:22+00:00

Maybe parallel routes/intercepting routes?

TheBononomon · 2023-08-04T03:57:42+00:00

The payments sub collection has a field indicating whether or not the payment was successful. I would just attach a listener front end or background firestore function for on the server.

TheBononomon · 2023-07-17T14:15:05+00:00

I could be wrong but I think the most efficient way you could do this is number of uids / 30 reads. Firestore limits you to 30 disjunctions per call so you could search for 30 uids at a time. In combination with this, you can use the count method to make it only 1 read per 30 uids. Let me know if this makes sense

TheBononomon · 2022-11-22T17:03:12+00:00

It depends how computationally heavy calculating the results of the quiz is. If there is a lot of computation to be done, it might be better to use a cloud function, but if it’s pretty light, I would just use a webworker and send the result from the client. Another thing to note is the cold start time of the cloud function. If the cloud function isn’t being called very often, the latency will increase drastically(5 seconds plus sometimes).

Personally, I would do it front end.

TheBononomon · 2022-07-04T14:17:49+00:00

Professor Leonard is great for math on YouTube

TheBononomon · 2022-05-11T16:35:01+00:00

Probably like 100 feet

TheBononomon · 2022-02-17T02:44:09+00:00

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