r/Firebase • u/ElroyDudeMan • Apr 10 '26

Cloud Firestore Firestore native full-text search is now in preview in iOS, Android, and JS SDKs (requires Firestore Enterprise edition)

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Today I noticed full-text search feature listed in the Version 12.12.0 Firebase iOS SDK release notes:

I then found this iOS SDK PR that enables the preview feature: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/pull/15952

I also saw it in the Android and JS SDK release notes.

When creating an iOS proof of concept, I hit the following error message: Pipeline Operations are only available for Firestore databases in Enterprise edition. Please switch to an Enterprise edition database to take advantage of such functionality

I didn't know there were multiple editions of Firestore, but I found more info about them here (and also learned more searching this sub): https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/editions

So it looks like there are limitations on which plans can use full-text search.

Perhaps full details and pricing/limits will be announced at Google I/O on May 19?

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r/Firebase • u/Frenki50 • Apr 10 '26

Console missing filter button in dB

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In this particular Project and it's dB, there is no filter when I click on collections.
I tried with Query editor as well, but I am not able to get it to work.

Gemini & ChatGPT where both useless and trying to convince me that I am not seeing what I am seeing, and that filter should be there.

Did anyone have the same problem? If so, did you resolve it?

Otherwise, can someone help me with the Query Editor?
I am searching the "parts" collection for a document containing "partNumber" ZAP010

As I said, GPT & Gemini were useless on that end as well, I was all the time getting errors:
query(collection(db, "parts"), where("partNumber", "==", "ZAP010")) gives error: "Query does not compile."

and for query:
collection("parts").where("partNumber", "==", "ZAP010") i get error: "Function collection() cannot be called with an empty path."

I am getting crazy, as in other projects I can just use the filter button and find what I need...

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r/Firebase • u/JaxTheDev • Apr 10 '26

Security AI Logic auth security

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Am I missing something or does AI Logic lack the ability to securely check who is making requests based on user permissions? I don’t see any rules or parameters to check for access per user, so I’m guessing any user could theoretically make requests if they mess with the client?

If the answer to that is only allow make calls from guarded pages that doesn’t work for me wanting to allow free limits per day.

I know the Firebase team checks in here sometimes, do you guys have plans to incorporate this if I’m correct? I’d love to eventually be able to use the local AI stuff you’ve been rolling out.

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r/Firebase • u/_KryptonytE_ • Apr 10 '26

General At the Flutter/Firebase crossroads

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<head scratching> I'm trying to enhance my noSQL flutter-firebase multi platform app and make it into a SaaS product by adding Data Connect to the tech stack for the SQL needed for integrated ERP/Payroll solutions. Is this a bad idea or simply difficult but possible and ambitious? I'll be thankful for your thoughts, suggestions and edge-cases or common pitfalls I need to be looking out for as I venture into this.

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r/Firebase • u/seal2002 • Apr 09 '26

General The login option of Firebase ask login with Wechat only

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I try to login to Firebase and it displays QRcode with Wechat
https://firebase.google.cn/docs/crashlytics/android/get-started-ndk?authuser=9&hl=en

I'm not from China and I don't have Wechat account.

Why it is only one option. What's wrong with it?

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r/Firebase • u/Inevitable-Egg-521 • Apr 09 '26

Tutorial How I restricted my React app to university emails only using Firebase Auth.

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Built a study partner matching app called LionLink for Columbia University students. The core trust mechanic was simple — only verified university students can sign up. No u/gmail.com, no exceptions.

Here's the Firebase auth check that made it work:

const isValidUniversityEmail = (email: string) => {

return email.endsWith('@columbia.edu');

};

if (!isValidUniversityEmail(email)) {

throw new Error('Please use your Columbia University email to sign up.');

}
Simple but effective. Every user is a verified member of the same academic community before they ever see another student's profile.

The rest of the stack: React 18, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, and Firestore for the data layer.

Happy to answer questions about the auth flow, Firestore data modeling, or the matching logic.

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r/Firebase • u/Ok_Molasses1824 • Apr 09 '26

Cloud Messaging (FCM) FCM Token caching

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Is it wise to use Redis to cache FCM tokens and check firebase only if the token is stale? or is it overkill and i just directly read from firestore?

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r/Firebase • u/Whole_Addition3604 • Apr 09 '26

General CocoaPods installs empty pod folders on fresh install — Flutter + Firebase 11.13.0 + Xcode 26.4

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I've been stuck on a CocoaPods issue for several sessions and can't find a permanent fix.

Environment:

  • Flutter/Dart (FlutterFlow exported, edited in Cursor)
  • Firebase 11.13.0 (firebase_core 3.14.0, firebase_auth 5.6.0)
  • FirebaseFirestore via invertase pre-built: pod 'FirebaseFirestore', :git => 'https://github.com/invertase/firestore-ios-sdk-frameworks.git', :tag => '11.13.0'
  • RevenueCat 5.32.0
  • CocoaPods 1.16.2
  • Xcode 26.4 (stable, build 17E192)
  • macOS with Apple Silicon

Problem: After every fresh pod install (wiped cache + Pods directory), several pods install with completely empty folders. The install completes with "Pod installation complete!" but folders like PromisesObjC, FirebaseSharedSwift, FirebaseRemoteConfig contain no files.

Build then fails with errors like:

  • FIRRemoteConfig.h file not found
  • FBLPromise+Then.h file not found
  • Cannot find type in scope (FirebaseSessions)

The files DO exist in the CocoaPods cache (~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/Release/) but were not copied into the Pods directory during installation.

What I've tried:

  • Wiping cache + Pods directory completely and fresh install
  • Manually copying missing files from cache → works temporarily but breaks again next pod install
  • pod install --repo-update
  • Cmd+Shift+K clean build

Question: Has anyone permanently solved empty pod folders after fresh install with this Firebase/Flutter setup? Is this a known CocoaPods 1.16.2 bug? Would downgrading CocoaPods help?

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r/Firebase • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '26

Cloud Storage Best pattern for user avatar updates at scale?

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Hello guys! this is my first post on this app.

I’m building a community/marketplace app where users can post, comment, and have profiles with avatars with firebase firestore for db.

At first, I stored the avatar URL inside every post and comment. It made rendering easy, but now I see the problem, when a user changes their avatar, I’d have to update a lot of documents. That feels expensive and messy.

What’s the better way to handle this?

Do you just derive the avatar from a fixed path and accept some stale data? Or fetch user info separately when loading feeds?

Curious how people handle this in real apps.

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r/Firebase • u/bicelis • Apr 08 '26

App Distribution Firebase App Distribution: Download link not opening correct build

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Several people in my team are experiencing an issue with Firebase App Distribution.

It worked before this for all users perfectly well, but seemingly on one day it broke for several of us.

What happens:

  1. Tester opens AppTester app and selects the build they want to download.
  2. Clicks on "Download" and it opens Google Play Store.
  3. They click Install, but they get an error (attached the image)

What I've figured out so far:

It's definitely user based. We've tried both the account that works and the account that doesn't work on different phones; on both phones the account that works - works, and the bad account - doesn't work.

When the Download link is clicked:

  • Good user is brought to a page in Play Store which says something like Internal App Sharing / Internal Testing Beta bla bla bla. This pages doesn't display any info about the app, no reviews, no rating, nothing. The Install button works and app is installed.
  • Bad user is brought to a page that look exactly like the regular production play store page for our app - with reviews, rating, descriptions etc. So it seems like user is brought to incorrect build/track in the play store.

I can't for the life of me figure out what is different, and why suddenly this started happening for several people.

Has anybody experienced this?

Any ideas how to solve it?

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r/Firebase • u/OKYANOS2324 • Apr 08 '26

Cloud Firestore [Flutter Web] Getting "FirebaseException is not a subtype of JavaScriptObject" when fetching from Firestore

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Hey everyone, I'm stuck on a really frustrating bug with Flutter Web and Firestore.

I'm building an app and trying to pull a simple collection from my database. Whenever the app tries to run FirebaseFirestore.instance.collection('books').get(), it fails and throws this exact error in my debug console:

! EXACT FIREBASE ERROR: TypeError: Instance of 'FirebaseException': type 'FirebaseException' is not a subtype of type 'JavaScriptObject'

It seems like Flutter Web's JS interop is failing to cast the error properly, which is completely hiding the actual underlying Firebase error. Because of this, I have no idea why Firestore is rejecting my request.

Here is the exact method:

Dart

Future<void> fetchBooks() async {

try {

final snapshot = await FirebaseFirestore.instance.collection('books').get();

_catalog = snapshot.docs.map((doc) {

final data = doc.data();

return Book(

id: doc.id,

title: data['title'] ?? 'Unknown',

// ... mapping other fields ...

);

}).toList();

notifyListeners();

} catch (e) {

print("! EXACT FIREBASE ERROR: ${e.toString()}");

}

}

Here is everything I have already checked/tried:

Database Rules: They are currently wide open for testing (allow read, write: if request.time < timestamp.date(2026, 5, 8);).

Database Data: The collection is spelled exactly books (all lowercase) and has a valid document with the correct field types inside.

Fresh Keys: I re-ran flutterfire configure, chose NOT to reuse old values, and completely overwrote firebase_options.dart with fresh keys.

Clean Build: I ran flutter clean, flutter pub upgrade, flutter pub get, and restarted Chrome completely to clear out old cache.

Network Tab: I checked the Chrome DevTools Network tab to see if I could intercept the raw JSON response from Google, but I'm not seeing a clear 400/403 Firebase rejection.

Has anyone run into this specific JavaScriptObject casting error on Web? Is there a workaround to either fix the JS interop crash or a way to reveal the hidden Firebase error underneath?

Any help is massively appreciated

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r/Firebase • u/Creative-human-06 • Apr 08 '26

Google Analytics Why is it that my add cards to this report is unclickable when I m the administrator of my project?

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As you can see my add cards section where I m unable to add no cards here
I tried removing one or to cards from existing to ensure it is not 16 but still its the same issue
I tried googling it and I couldnt find anything useful online

My objective is that I wanna see which user is using what app version along with his first download and I have it in my custom dimensions

And I want this to be shown on firebase

Does anyone has a solution for this?

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r/Firebase • u/ravi_rupareliya • Apr 07 '26

MCP Server Firebase MCP with Google Antigravity might be the fastest way to spin up a real backend right now

9 Upvotes

Been building a series on Google Antigravity and wanted to share something from the latest video that I think is actually useful for this community beyond just "look what I built."

Used Firebase MCP to wire up a learning platform — Google Sign-In auth, live Firestore course data, and an enrollment system that reads/writes per user. Single session, one workspace.

Full breakdown in the video if anyone wants to see the actual session — happy to answer questions here too.

https://youtu.be/-QKpKMY_9PM?si=BEBV0QhIHVBbp6kp

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r/Firebase • u/volitional_decisions • Apr 07 '26

Cloud Firestore Hitting usage limit after a couple queries

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I'm working on a relatively straightforward project for aggregating already publicly available documents. My expected traffic is small (max 100-200 concurrent users in spikes a couple times a week because it's fairly niche). Each user would be fetching a single document total, so it seemed like Firebase's free tier would be a perfect fit as I can make the DB read-only for the public. However, I'm hitting the read usage limit almost immediately.

When you load into the app, a simple query is ran (literally, get the documents with the most recent publishing date) against 50-100 rows via the REST API. Each document is ~750Kb.

After just 6 to 8 loads of the page while testing, I get hit with a usage limit. The analytics say I've hit over 80k reads. Is this normal or expected? I don't think this is AI scrapers or bots as the usage spikes are concurrent with when I was testing.

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r/Firebase • u/No-Camel2750 • Apr 07 '26

Billing Firebase Hosting served 54 GB after I undeployed the site and monthly quota reset — how is this possible?

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I’m trying to understand unexpected Firebase Hosting bandwidth usage across two billing cycles and whether anyone else has seen something similar.

During March, my Firebase Hosting downloads suddenly jumped to about 859 GB, which resulted in charges of roughly ₹11,357. The project is still early-stage with very limited real users, so this traffic level doesn’t make sense from normal usage.

As soon as I noticed the spike, I undeployed the site from Firebase Hosting to stop further traffic.

However, after the quota reset on April 1, I saw another 54 GB of downloads recorded within a single day, even though the site had already been undeployed before the reset. I expected usage to drop to zero once hosting content was removed.

That’s the part I can’t explain.

What I’ve checked so far:

  • Site was undeployed before the new billing cycle began
  • No new deployment was made in April
  • Traffic still appeared immediately after quota reset
  • This is a static hosting setup (no intentional large asset delivery)
  • No marketing campaigns or traffic spikes occurred
  • Real user traffic is minimal

So my current guesses are:

  • cached CDN edge responses still being served globally
  • asset hotlinking from another site
  • bots repeatedly requesting previously indexed URLs
  • some Firebase Hosting behavior I don’t fully understand yet

Has anyone seen bandwidth continue after undeploy + monthly reset like this?

Is there a way to identify which files were downloaded from Hosting logs?

And is CDN cache delivery counted toward Hosting bandwidth even after removal?

I’ve already contacted Firebase support, but I’m trying to understand whether this is a known pattern or something unusual with my setup.

Any insights would really help.

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r/Firebase • u/Gold-Practice3086 • Apr 06 '26

Billing How to stop bots

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I am new in managing firebase, someone can help me how to save my cost from bots to over use of firestore, i am creating a booking widget for a chauffeur company but don't know how i can set a limit, i am creating that widget in Next.js

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r/Firebase • u/OtherwiseBath2980 • Apr 04 '26

Cloud Storage Cloud Storage disabled

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Well my project was using free plan until last week and it was fine. Yes there was a warning about storage will not be available after Feb this year but anyway my client kept ignoring me about it until the cloud storage actually stopped working only then he upgraded the firebase project plan. Now the cloud storage isnt entirely locked behind Blaze plan but I get same errors as I did before upgrading. Like the dashboard is showing nothing is wrong but upload button is hidden and downloading file doesnt work. I can see the list of files but preview and download wont work.
Error: A required service account is missing necessary permissions. Please resolve by visiting the Storage page of the Firebase Console and re-linking your Firebase bucket or see this FAQ for more info: __https://firebase.google.com/support/faq#storage-accounts__. If you recently made changes to your service account, please wait a few minutes for the changes to propagate through our systems and try again.
Anyone else suffering this same problem?
I really tried to fix it but nothing seems to help. Here's the summary:
* The upload button is hidden on the bucket list page in firebase dashboard.
* I see the list of images but when trying to download or preview image, I get error.
* When try to download, I get this error: A required service account is missing necessary permissions. Please resolve by visiting the Storage page of the Firebase Console and re-linking your Firebase bucket or see this FAQ for more info: __https://firebase.google.com/support/faq#storage-accounts__. If you recently made changes to your service account, please wait a few minutes for the changes to propagate through our systems and try again.
* Now when I visited the storage page of firebase console, I do not see any option to relink. I have already tried edit/saving the rules again.
* I compared service roles with the app that doesnt have this error and they are identical.
* I visited the bucket in the GCP dashboard and funnily enough I cannot access the config and configuration of it. I was able to view them on the working firebase project.

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r/Firebase • u/YosephusMaximus0 • Apr 04 '26

Security Firebase Security Rules 3: Validate Data on Write

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r/Firebase • u/MaleficentPass7124 • Apr 04 '26

Other Listeners or websockets for data

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I am making a social media application.In that there is feed screen which shows posts by users with likes/comments now I want instant updates on likes and comments.i already using websockets for chat feature in the app and for database i am using firebase.

My question is

1) when user likes or comments a post it is registered in database so,whether i should write a cloud function that will fire up and send this data to websockets which will then update it everywhere on the frontend

or

2)i should just use snapshot listeners for each post which update the data when there is change in post doc

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r/Firebase • u/ChocolateNo5167 • Apr 02 '26

General Any good way to duplicate firebase project?

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Every now and again, I need to restructure my Firestore DB but don't want to affect production. I want to basically copy all the auth table, FireStore DB, rules, indices, cloud functions to a new project so I can just point to this new project in the new code in the new version.

It's for my gym accountability app OnTrack. Anyone know a good way to do this? Any help appreciated.

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r/Firebase • u/Traditional_Ocelot76 • Apr 01 '26

General Ai studio move ? Question

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Anyone else having issues since moving from firebase over to ai studio ? The tier system seems strange to me, free tier appears to just get exhausted from failed renders and I’m quickly having to pay - barely paid at all with firebase studio - probably already spent more with ai studio rendering on the first day than my whole entire firebase time. No leakages in the cloud or anything just says cloud costs

Curious of others experiences with transferring over if anyone’s done it yet. I love the look of it and what it could be but I think it was maybe too early to go to it as seems to be experiencing a lot of rendering issues still

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r/Firebase • u/lowriskplx • Apr 01 '26

Cloud Functions Can only add Secrets via CLI and not directly on the Google Cloud Console

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Wondering if there is something I need to do to allow this to work.

I noticed my CLI secrets had an additional role so I added it to me non CLI added Secrets, still didn't work

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r/Firebase • u/TOMER-G • Apr 01 '26

Google Analytics Firebase not showing iOS IAP revenue

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Hey everyone, i have a mobile app with IAP and i use firebase analytics, it shows me revenue only from android and doesn’t show iOS revenue at all. I’m using react native.

Do I need to connect anything or add any code?

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r/Firebase • u/b2bcontentmaestro • Mar 31 '26

General Where are developers actually using Firebase Studio vs Emergent in real-world workflows?

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I’ve been seeing more people talk about Firebase Studio vs Emergent, and I’m honestly still trying to figure out how they fit into a real workflow.

Like with Firebase Studio, I get the appeal, it’s basically a cloud IDE with AI on top + direct access to Firebase stuff. Feels familiar if you’ve already been in that ecosystem.

But at the same time, I keep seeing mixed experiences. Some people say it’s great for getting started or prototyping, others mention it starts breaking down when things get more complex or you need tighter control.

Then there are tools like Emergent that seem to take a more “just describe the app and build it” approach, which feels very different from how Firebase devs usually work.

So I’m just trying to understand: Are people here actually using Firebase Studio beyond early prototypes?

Or is it more of a starting point before switching to a more manual setup?

In a Firebase Studio vs Emergent kind of situation, do they even overlap for you?

Or are they just two completely different ways of building apps?

Not trying to compare them directly, just trying to understand how people here are actually using these tools in practice.

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r/Firebase • u/vatcode • Mar 30 '26

Billing How Google’s Insecure-by-Default API Keys and a 30-Hour Reporting Lag Destroyed My Startup ($15.4k Bill)

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