How to set up Firebase Emulators

Using Firebase Emulators to mirror development on your local system: free, fast. Firebase Emulators sound like a great idea. Run an extract of your cloud environment on localhost, Avoid expensive accidents in the cloud. Be fast. The reality, hoever, is that there are a lot of little problems to deal with. Let’s assume you already have gcloud set up, and have a Firebase project named dev-test with authentication, a Firestore database, Storage, and security rules for both of the latter....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · Craig Fisk