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Support Dart in Cloud Functions
Dart is not currently supported in Cloud Functions, so developers need to use more than one language in their code base. Here are some pain points they shared with the Firebase product team about this gap:
- They need to learn another language, and many of them do not have the same expertise in JavaScript as they do in Dart.
- The lack of features and tools, such as Hot Reload and Hot Restart, impacts development speed.
- Developers cannot share business logic and data models across the entire stack.
- Developers cannot use frequently used Dart packages on the…122 votes -
Support Swift in Cloud Functions
Swift is a much beloved and popular language for writing apps on the Apple platforms, but increasingly, it is also being used server side and even for writing cross platform business logic on Android and on Windows.
Being able to share models and business logic between your clients and server would be an amazing productivity boost. And being able to develop in a language that focuses on safety would eliminate categories of issues that can exist if you develop in say Javascript or Typescript.
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Better support for Cloud Tasks, e.g. queues
It is currently already possible to create google cloud tasks. However, this could be better integrated by creating an abstraction for queues, for example, which can also be monitored and controlled via the admin console and firebase emulator.
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Create a context.auth (1st Gen) equivalent for 2nd Gen cloud function
1st gen cloud functions can access auth info via context.auth as described here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/extend-with-functions?gen=1st#accessing_user_authentication_information
But 2nd gen cloud functions is yet to have the same function.
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Support Go in Cloud Functions
Go is much more efficient than Python or Js and should be the obvious choice for backend where performance is crucial
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Support TypeScript in Cloud Functions
It's a pain to have to configure a process to watch and transpile TypeScript files to use in the emulator. Firebase CLI should have built-in support for it both in the emulator (with automatic watching, or on-the-fly transpilation as I showed here https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/5633#issuecomment-1622585432) and when deploying.
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Edge Runtime for functions
Bring in Edge Runtime for functions to perform high performance tasks in the edge cloud for faster responses.
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Support Jvm languages (Java/Kotlin) in Cloud Functions
Jvm languages are not supported in Cloud Functions today, so developers need to use more than one language in their code base.
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8 votes
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Add API to make it easy to build rate limiting in HTTPS functions
It would be awesome with some kind of helper built on memcache to allow rate limiting on user defined parameters.
E.g. if I build a webservice that can access an 'account' concept that I have modelled with some kind of access token I have modelled, then it would be nice to add rate limiting rules for either the specific access token or the entire account.
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7 votes
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Real-time updates for Cloud functions
With Firebase, you can have real time listeners on Firestore documents, which allow to have your UI in sync with your data.
But when you ship logic in an app, you lose control over it.
If you want to be able to update that logic after shipping, you place it in the backend (Cloud Functions), but then you lose real time updates.
It would be amazing to have functions that can fire real-time events based on Firestore updates.So the flow would be:
- There is an update in a Firestore document (or potentially other triggers like pub/sub, analitycs, etc.)…3 votes -
Make the functions npm dependencies cache list public
An article and youtube video explains how to optimize cold boots by updating dependencies to 'commonly used versions' as this will increase the chance that the dependencies can already be found in the 'dependencies cache'.
https://medium.com/@duhroach/improving-cloud-function-cold-start-time-2eb6f5700f6
This is quite vague and a bit hard to reason about. Would it be possible to see a list of package names and version info for all packages in the dependencies cache?
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5 votes
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next.js dockerfile
I am deploying using the Firebase CLI with Next.js. I find it incredibly effective and I am very grateful for it, however, I've encountered a bit of a problem.
When running code with SSR that requires a certain package, an error occurs and I'm unable to proceed.
Is it possible to use a Dockerfile or a Docker container image that I've prepared myself?
Thank you very much for your assistance.
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Unit tests for Python Firebase Functions
There should be unit testing for python functions like we have unit testing for typescript here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/unit-testing.
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Add an option to host cloud function free of cost
We all knoow cloud functions are not free now. But it would be great if you kindly allow upto 3 cloud functions without all the expensive apis like cloud vision etc.
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Streaming
To implement userfriendly generative AI applications it is import to stream data produced by LLMs back to the users browser. Firebase currently buffers all content and only returns when data is complete. Is the firebase team planning to implement this?
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Execution ID in logs generated by Firebase Functions v2
Logs generated by Firebase Functions v1 have the property
labels.execution_idthat can be used to correlate logs that pertain to the same execution. However, that property doesn't exist in logs generated by Firebase Functions v2. It's very important for debugging.2 votes -
Support for WebAssembly in Cloud Functions
Many languages requested in other posts—Swift, Rust, Kotlin, etc.—can be implemented all at once by adding WebAssembly (WASM) and WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) to the list of Cloud Functions’s supported runtimes (and—importantly—supplying high-quality documentation).
2 votes
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