Deprecate in favor of Cloud Firestore

[adriancarriger]

This project helped provide an offline solution to Firebase consumers before offline support was officially supported. Now that Firebase has released Cloud Firestore I personally recommend using it going forward.

Benfits

• Cloud Firestore is not Angular specific which means there is a larger user base
• More eyes are on their codebase which = higher quality + highly maintained
• Important issues should be resolved faster

Moving forward

Pull requests will still be accepted, but I won't be actively adding new features.

I realize that some people might prefer to stick with Firebase's Realtime Database product. In that case you have two options:

• Stick with Angular 4 (feel free to make PRs to this repo)
• Wait for offline support to come to Firebase's Realtime Database (Issue #17)

Thanks to everyone who has supported this project! If you are interested in adding features or helping to maintain this project, please volunteer in the comments below.

[curious-monggo]

Sad, I see my wallet going down the drain with cloud firestore :( But still, thank you for your months of support on this sir adrian!

[curious-monggo]

UPDATE

Although firestore seems to be a bit pricey for my app. The gains still outweigh the losses. A more advanced querying, full support for offline mode, same security rules as storage, automatically scales. MAAAAAN it is worth it!