Re:Show HN: Firestorm – An ORM for Firestore
by lmcq on Monday September 02, 2019 @12:21PM
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Thanks for your feedback!
Realtime updates have been implemented in the latest version. Unfortunately no work has done on batched transactions, but I plan to add the feature when I have some spare time.
There is a huge downside though, this ORM doesn't implement any of the real-time features which makes Firestore so appealing in the first place. Snapshot changes is one of the best things about Firestore, allowing realtime database updates to appear on the client. By not using this feature this becomes indistinguishable from any other database backend...
There's also a major limitation without using Batched transactions. As Firestore limits you to 500 updates per request, which comes up pretty fast in a lot of systems.
Sorry to be so critical, genuinely like the efforts made, just thought I'd mention why those features are important.