Articles filed in category 'Cloud Firestore'

  • Introduction to Cloud Firestore

    By: Wei-Meng Lee

    Last updated: Sunday, January 5, 2025

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - May/June

    The article "Introduction to Cloud Firestore" by Wei-Meng Lee introduces developers to the Cloud Firestore service from Google. The author explains how Cloud Firestore is a NoSQL document database that allows developers to store data on the cloud and keep clients synchronized through real-time listeners. Lee provides step-by-step instructions on setting up Cloud Firestore in a React Native application, as well as demonstrating how to add, retrieve, update, and delete documents in the database. The article serves as a beginner's guide to getting started with Cloud Firestore and highlights its benefits for building responsive apps that can work online and offline.