Push with Firestore (realtime updates)

Bartalog / cool-maze

A quick mobile-to-desktop share capability, through matrix barcode

Apache License 2.0

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Push with Firestore (realtime updates) #552

Closed Deleplace closed 1 year ago

Deleplace commented 1 year ago

Current push component

Pusher.com (since #1)

Alternative

Try the realtime updates feature of Firestore (or Firebase RTDB)
Compare speed, cost, scalability, complexity, impact on frontend JS size.

Deleplace commented 1 year ago

Datastore mode disables Firestore features that are not compatible with Datastore:

The project will accept Datastore API requests and deny Firestore API requests.

You can use Datastore client libraries with this project but not Firestore client libraries.

Firestore real-time capabilities will not be available

That's a bummer, as we're already using Datastore (aka Firestore in Datastore mode)

Deleplace commented 1 year ago

Another alternative: Firebase FCM

Deleplace commented 1 year ago

FCM would require a Service Worker, and the user consent to send Notifications. Not seamless.

Deleplace commented 1 year ago

It's possible to create a new distinct project with Firestore in Native mode, and let the two projects communicate:

main project writes to the Firestore DB of the second project,
web page listens to updates of some Document or Collection of the Firestore DB of the second project.

Not ideal, but will probably work fine.

Deleplace commented 1 year ago

Cloud Firestore Lite: lightweight, but does not support onSnapshot (realtime updates)