Firebase News #5 🔥
The best (well, I think so) Google Firebase news and articles
Happy New Year everyone! I’m really excited to continue to bring you Firebase news and interesting articles. This week we have some great videos and articles on Firestore.
Thanks to all the sharing and support. We’ve been increasing at a steady pace newsletter after newsletter. Here are the number of readers for first four issues:
20 ➵ 65 ➵ 83 ➵ 105 ➵ 127
Here’s looking to hit 200 soon! You can help by sharing the newsletter.
Also, the waitlist for Firemon has been growing. In case you don’t know, Firemon is a new app that helps you manage and predict your Firebase costs. We, like many, got hit with some unexpected usage costs, so we built an application to handle alerting/monitoring (more granular than Google’s alerts) and cost predictions.
You can sign up for the waitlist and share to get bumped up higher.
And now away we go…
Modern React apps with Hooks, Suspense, Context, and Firebase
I’m a big React user and I just started to get into hooks - once you get hooked you’ll never go back. Ok, that was bad, but what isn’t bad is using Firebase + React + Hooks and this great video with @jhuleatt.
The top 10 things to know about Firestore when choosing a database for your app
If you see a tech article by Doug Stevenson, read it, because they are usually good and insightful. Firestore is awesome, but not perfect. It is absolutely vital you know the +’s and the -’s before using it in production. Especially on costs (see Firemon above).
Why is my Cloud Firestore query slow?
Because it is karma coming back to haunt you! Also, the 5 reasons and solutions Todd Kerpelman gives on why Firestore might be slow for you. I still say it is karma.
Prerelease your app updates with Firebase App Distribution!
The spiritual successor to Fabric/Crashlytics Beta that is integrated with other Firebase products. Also, “free and unlimited”, so not too bad. This is the whole keynote, but the link skips right to the App Dist part.
That is all for this week and hope you have a great 2020!
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Also, don’t forget to check out Firemon for controlling your Firebase costs.