I signed up for Firebase to use the new Firestore.
After trying it out I decided that, for my use cases (mostly server tools) I don't need most of the features of Firestore, that are very much focused on building user interfaces, and I find the old Datastore SDKs nicer for what I'm doing.
I know I could simply delete the project and create a new one but I have other things in that project that I would like to keep.
Can I revert to Datastore without starting a new project?
Unfortunately just as we cannot convert a project that has used Cloud Datastore to Cloud Firestore, we cannot do the reverse either. It might be possible in the future, but definitely not this year.
As noted, the renaming 2 options are:
1) Delete the project and create a new one with Cloud Datastore
2) Create a new project and talk to that projects database. Note: This won't work if you are using GAE Standard SDKs.
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I am building an automation process for my app, which includes creating several new Firebase projects. (After a lot of investigation, I am sure that several projects are needed, and that it cannot be done with just one project).
I am looking for a way to create a new Firebase project from scratch, and enable Phone Auth, Cloud Firestore, and Cloud Storage, along with security rules, programmatically.
I have taken a look at the Firebase Management REST API, which indeed shows a way to create a new Firebase project and link it to an existing GCP project, but couldn't find a way to configure the project itself through the API (Authentication, Firestore, Storage, etc.).
Is there any way to create and configure a Firebase project from scratch, using an API/SDK or CI/CD of some kind?
Thank you!
Have you looked into the firebase-admin SDK? It is a backend-only API because it needs your private key to authenticate against and can therefore not be used in the app directly (shipping your private key with the app would be pretty big security issue!), but as I understand it, creating new firebase-projects is something of a backend activity for you anyway?!
Look at https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/admin/ for the API's documentation and what you can do with it.
So after a long research, it seems that we can combine the Firebase CLI and the Firebase Admin SDK in order to achieve it.
We can create a new project using the command
firebase projects:create NEW_PROJECT_ID
And then to configure all of the necessary configurations through the admin SDK
I have developed an app (my first app) that's currently on app- and playstore. I'm using Firebase/Firestore as a back-end/database. I'm about to start to work on the next version of the app, which will require me to modify my database for testing and such. However, I currently have about 100 regular users on the app and I wouldn't want them to experience any weird data changes on their app while I'm developing.
I'm simply not sure about the way it's done when you further develop an existing app. I was thinking of creating new collections in Firestore simply for testing and hook my app with them but I don't know if that's the best way to go.
How do I work on a new version of an app without my users seeing any changes in their data?
If your data model is (very) simple you could create some specific, temporary, collections as you describe, but this is quite an error-prone approach (risk of modifying existing data, wrong or missing security rules, etc..) and is not recommended.
One standard approach is simply to create another Firebase project which is totally isolated from the production project. You will need to change the Firebase configuration in your Flutter app. If you need existing production data in your test Firebase project you could use the export/import mechanism.
There are multiple companies using one application. So I want to have, or know if this is the best way, to create a project for each company, all this with the Firebase API, to create everything programmatically. But I think this is too difficult to do and get that structure. The truth is that the documentation about the Rest API to create projects is not very clear and I am getting lost. One of the things that I want to structure projects like this is to know how much use is made of each project, calculate requests and use of storage. But I don't know if there are other ways to do this.
It's not possible to create a new project for Firebase using the Firebase API, what is possible is to list projects, and create/list apps within an existing project using the Firebase Management API.
For monitoring usage, you can use Cloud Monitoring to assess the usage of each individual app, per service.
I'm working on a product which uses Firebase as its backend. Since firebase exposes the API keys to the user so that could be a security issue. So, after doing some research I've set the database security rules along with API keys restrictions.
But, now I'm unable to use it in local development as well. I was thinking of creating another firebase project and use that as a testing environment and use the existing one as production.
Since the existing project has a lot of data and users. I want everything similar in the new firebase project as well. But I'm unable to find an efficient way to do so. Can anyone please suggest what would be the best option here? Should I create a new testing environment or is there a way to allow me to use the keys locally without it causing a security concern?
Any help would be great. Thank you for your time.
There is no specific command to replicate one project to another, but you can build the necessary functionality yourself with each product's APIs.
For porting users between projects you can use:
The Firebase CLI, which has auth:import and auth:export commands.
The Firebase Admin SDK, which has commands to list all users and import a list of users.
For transferring data between the projects, you can use the API of the relevant database to read/write the data.
I have a project with 2 schemes, one for development and other for production. I am also using firebase, hence I created 2 projects and injected two google plists under different names in the project. I also need to access google cloud platform. I cannot change/modify cloud functions without affecting my production application. Is there a way where I can have two Firestore for single project so that editing/ changing functions in on won't affect other?
It's not possible to have multiple Firestore instances per project.
It's not entirely clear to me what the problem is with your use of Cloud Functions, but the functions running in each projects should automatically use the Firestore instance for the project that they've been deployed to. If you need to access a different Firestore instance, then you will need to deploy some configuration for your functions so they can initialize an instance of the Cloud SDK that you're using to read and write Firestore