Firebase in-memory mock

[Vincent den Boer]

Hi everybody,

I've started to experiment with Firebase the last few months and it's great! I'm going to use it in some projects that are coming up very soon to get some real-world experience with it.

What I've been asking myself though, is whether it's possible to set up local Firebase instances for development purposes. While traveling, I find myself often with no or highly crappy internet, so it would be nice to be able to develop offline. Also, it'd allow every developer to get started programming more easily, have his own test data, without any risk off messing up the production database by accident. Is such a thing already available? Is there some other best practice? If there's no solution for this yet, I've been looking for a while to contribute something back to the Open Source community, so I'd be happy to create a node.js based development server for example.

Best regards,
Vincent

[Piotr Kaminski]

Hi Vincent,

You can take a look at https://github.com/urish/firebase-server -- it does some of the things you're looking for and you may be able to build on it.  But I think it's also reasonable to have each developer create a separate (free) development Firebase and make sure your dev build picks up its name from an environment variable.  (Though this doesn't address the offline development scenario.)  Good luck!

    -- P.

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