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Deprecate in favor of Cloud Firestore

Open adriancarriger opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments
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This project helped provide an offline solution to Firebase consumers before offline support was officially supported. Now that Firebase has released Cloud Firestore I personally recommend using it going forward.

Benfits

  • Cloud Firestore is not Angular specific which means there is a larger user base
  • More eyes are on their codebase which = higher quality + highly maintained
  • Important issues should be resolved faster

Moving forward

Pull requests will still be accepted, but I won't be actively adding new features.

I realize that some people might prefer to stick with Firebase's Realtime Database product. In that case you have two options:

  • Stick with Angular 4 (feel free to make PRs to this repo)
  • Wait for offline support to come to Firebase's Realtime Database (Issue #17)

Thanks to everyone who has supported this project! If you are interested in adding features or helping to maintain this project, please volunteer in the comments below.

adriancarriger avatar Feb 02 '18 12:02 adriancarriger

Sad, I see my wallet going down the drain with cloud firestore :( But still, thank you for your months of support on this sir adrian!

curious-monggo avatar Aug 05 '18 10:08 curious-monggo

UPDATE

Although firestore seems to be a bit pricey for my app. The gains still outweigh the losses. A more advanced querying, full support for offline mode, same security rules as storage, automatically scales. MAAAAAN it is worth it!

curious-monggo avatar Sep 03 '18 01:09 curious-monggo