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Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript query editor, table view

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Re: Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript query editor, table view

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Post by xathis »

Hi HN! About a year ago we started using Cloud Firestore at work. And while I love it for its amazing realtime and effortless scaling capabilities, I grew more and more frustrated with the limitation in tooling around it. No way to query from shell, export collections, rename docs, edit nested field names, …

One day I had enough and pitched an idea to a friend: to create the experience I wanted to see. Luckily he was all in and we continued to spend our Corona lockdown hacking together an Electron app in TypeScript that makes my work delightful again! A few months later and we're glad to announce that Firefoo is now live for everyone to use!

Some features include

- Table View

- Export to JSON and CSV

- JavaScript Query Shell

- Batch Edit Documents

- Geo Point Map

We'd love to hear your thoughts and will be around in the comments all day!

- Mathis & Moritz

Re: Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript query editor, table view

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Post by xathis »

gbourne wrote: post #5

Congrats - this is definitely needed since the Firestore default GUI is so limited. I suggest an FAQ and include the Firestore query quota costs. If someone gets 1 million docs back it will go against their monthly quota.

Thanks! That's a good idea, we'll put info about the numbers of read/write/delete operations that Firefoo uses up somewhere. For long-running tasks (export, delete/rename colls) we show those numbers in the Tasks popup already but it'd be nice to show them up front!

Re: Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript query editor, table view

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Post by mritchie712 »

xathis wrote: post #2

Hi HN! About a year ago we started using Cloud Firestore at work. And while I love it for its amazing realtime and effortless scaling capabilities, I grew more and more frustrated with the limitation in tooling around it. No way to query from shell, export collections, rename docs, edit nested field names, … One day I had enough and pitched an idea to a friend: to create the experience I wanted to see. Luckily he was…

Looks great! How did you make the decision to go Electron vs. a web app?

Re: Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript query editor, table view

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Post by xathis »

mritchie712 wrote: post #7
xathis wrote: post #2

Hi HN! About a year ago we started using Cloud Firestore at work. And while I love it for its amazing realtime and effortless scaling capabilities, I grew more and more frustrated with the limitation in tooling around it. No way to query from shell, export collections, rename docs, edit nested field names, … One day I had enough and pitched an idea to a friend: to create the experience I wanted to see. Luckily he was…

Looks great! How did you make the decision to go Electron vs. a web app?

Thanks! It's for security reasons. We want to keep all the data locally on the user's computer, so your data will never touch our or a third party's server (other than Google). If we piped the requests through a backend, nobody could verify that we're not reading the content of your data or secrets.
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