Introducing the Extensions publishing experience If you’re a developer with an idea for a new extension - or if you want to help people get started with your business’ API - you can now use the Extensions publishing experience to build, publish, and share your own extensions with millions of Firebase and Google Cloud developers across the world. This is the first step towards building a thriving e

It’s been three years since we’ve been in person for Firebase Summit, and we’re excited to be hosting the first hybrid Firebase Summit in New York City and online! We missed connecting with our developer community in person, and learning about the amazing apps you’re building. At Firebase, we believe apps improve the way people live, work, and learn. And in recent months, we’ve heard the inspiring

We’re excited to deliver one of the most popular feature requests for Security Rules. Security Rules in Cloud Storage for Firebase now supports cross-service Rules with two brand new functions firestore.get() and firestore.exists(). These functions let you query your projects’ Firestore data, similar to the get() and exists() functions in Firestore Rules. This new functionality allows developers t

Firebase App Distribution graduates to General Availability with new featuresTo provide the best app experience for your end users, it's critical to test your app before you publicly release so users don't find bugs you missed and leave negative reviews on your app store listings. However, finding the right test group and managing your testers can be time consuming. Firebase App Distribution makes

Today, Google I/O 2022 kicks off and we’re thrilled to share the updates we’ve made to Firebase. The past couple of years have proven that apps are an indispensable part of our lives because they not only simplify daily tasks, they keep us informed, entertained, and connected to each other. That’s why we’re committed to providing you with the tools and resources you need to build and grow apps peo

Firebase has kept a stable JavaScript interface for around 5 years now. If you wrote the following line of code 5 years ago, it would still work today. import firebase from 'firebase/app'; import 'firebase/auth'; firebase.initializeApp({ /* config */ }); const auth = firebase.auth(); auth.onAuthStateChanged(user => { // Check for user status }); No one wants to rewrite code for the sake of rewriti

What's new from Firebase graphic After taking a hiatus in 2020, Google I/O is back and we’re excited to take part in this revamped, digital event to share the updates we’ve made to Firebase. Over the past year, apps helped us adapt and thrive in our new circumstances, and apps will no doubt continue to play an important role for many years to come. Our mission is to empower developers like you to

The biggest Firebase Hosting update ever? Preview channels, GitHub Actions, and more! Get ready! We have a huge set of updates landing for Firebase Hosting! Today we are announcing preview channels, an official GitHub Action, and cloning of versions! These features are centered around making you more productive and creating a better collaborative process for teams. Let’s dive in! Preview Channels

Hi, Firebase developers! In what might be my shortest (but most exciting) blog post this year, we wanted to let you know that Cloud Firestore now has support for not-equal queries. This means you can now query, for example, all documents in a “Projects” collection where the project’s status field is not equal to the value "completed" On a similar note, Cloud Firestore also supports not-in queries,

New for Firebase Hosting: request logging, Brotli compression, and internationalization We’re excited to announce several new features that make developing with Firebase Hosting even better! New features! Server-side analytics with Cloud Logging Our new integration with Cloud Logging gives you access to web request logs for your Hosting sites. Cloud Logging, previously known as Stackdriver Logging

Manage your Remote Config templates from the Admin Node.js SDK Firebase Remote Config allows developers to control the appearance and the behaviour of their apps without having to publish an app update. You can build your app with in-app default configurations and later change those configurations by updating your project’s Remote Config template. We are happy to announce that you can now manage y

If you’re using Cloud Firestore or Cloud Storage for Firebase, you’re also using Security Rules. (If you’re using the default rules instead of tailoring them to your app, this is where to start!) We’re excited to announce that in the last few months we’ve released some substantial improvements to the tools for writing and debugging Rules, improvements to the Rules language itself, and increases to

Firebase banner. Firebase Live. Update: To show respect for current events, we are postponing the launch of Firebase Live to June 23rd. Please take care of yourselves and your families. We look forward to connecting, sharing and learning together very soon. Stay tuned for updates. Here at Firebase we are extremely proud of our avid developer community. We love interacting with so many of you at di

Say hello to the helpful Firebase Emulator - a local first UI to boost your productivity Today we are extremely excited to introduce the Emulator UI to the Firebase community. The Emulator UI is a local web app that allows you to manage local emulators that make up the Firebase Local Emulator Suite. image of Emulator Suite overview Last year we released the Emulator Suite to simplify Firebase debu