[iambateman]

I’m building an app at the moment with Firestore and 99% of it is amazing or better. It’s a really fantastic tool and y’all are enabling people like me who are less adept to make good stuff. So thanks!

Two minor notes (one on security rules):

(1) in the tutorials I’ve seen, the security rules have received little attention and the documentation I’ve read is a bit confusing about the spectrum of possibilities for security rules. Tbh, I’ve punted security rules altogether until I’m closer to “beta ready” as opposed to writing them along the way. I suspect this is bad practice but haven’t found a better way. Much of this is my fault lol.

(2) “presence” systems still require the use of Real-Time DB. +1 feature request to support user connect/disconnect events in Firestore.

[puf]

firebaser here Completely agreed that we should do a better job in documenting the security rules. They're very powerful, but a huge paradigm shift for most developers, one that is too easily ignored (at your own and your user's peril). We've already released a bunch of improvements on the documentation, and continue to work on adding new documentation, video tutorials, and console improvements. Please keep telling us where we can/should improve security rules further though.

And yes, also agreed on needing a solution for presence system, either in Firestore itself, or separate from it.