arrowheadapps/strapi-connector-firestore

Any example how to implement snapshot for realtime data fetching on front-end?

brerdem opened this issue · 2 comments

brerdem commented

I'd like to use realtime functionality of Firestore but couldn't figure out how to fetch data directly from the database without using API endpoints. Is it possible?

brettwillis commented

Hi @brerdem, on the front end you can access via the strapi server API, or you can access directly via the Firebase JS SDK.
https://firebase.google.com/docs/web/setup

Realtime updates
https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/listen

Be sure to configure the Firestore security rules appropriately as discussed here

https://github.com/arrowheadapps/strapi-connector-firestore#security

brettwillis commented

I should add, you can configure the Firestore collection names using the collectionName field in the model's JSON configuration. I added this to the documentation just now.

@brerdem I'll close the issue for now. You should find the official Firestore documentation to be quite sufficient, but feel free to ask if you have any further questions.