firebase-tools-extra

Extra functionality for firebase-tools with support for emulators and auth through service account

Installation

npm i --save-dev firebase-tools-extra

Setup

1. Generate a service account from within the settings section of the Firebase console
2. Save the service account to serviceAccount.json within your firebase project repo (or set SERVICE_ACCOUNT environment variable)
3. Make sure you add serviceAccount.json to your .gitignore so it is not committed as part of your changes - THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT

To use with emulators:

1. Do one of the following:
   • Pass the --emulator flag along with your command
   • Set FIREBASE_DATABASE_EMULATOR_HOST and FIRESTORE_EMULATOR_HOST variabes to your environment
2. Use firebase-tools-extra the same way you would firebase-tools: firebase-extra database:get /users

Usage

firebase-tools-extra should be used the same way that firebase-tools is used - the API is as close to the same as possible:

firebase-extra database:get --limit-to-last 10 /users

Tests

To run all unit tests, run yarn test. This starts emulators, runs tests, then shuts down emulators.

Local Test Dev

1. Start emulators: yarn emulate
2. Run tests and watch for changes: yarn test:watch (NOTE: if you don't want the file watcher on use yarn test:base)

Why

firebase-tools does not have the following:

• support for emulators (feature request to add this to firebase-tools)
• full Firestore interactions including get, add, set, and update

License

MIT