Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript query editor, table view

Re:Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript q... by xathis on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:06AM (#27180761)

Hi HN! About a year ago we started using Cloud Firestore at work. And while I love it for its amazing realtime and effortless scaling capabilities, I grew more and more frustrated with the limitation in tooling around it. No way to query from shell, export collections, rename docs, edit nested field names, …

One day I had enough and pitched an idea to a friend: to create the experience I wanted to see. Luckily he was all in and we continued to spend our Corona lockdown hacking together an Electron app in TypeScript that makes my work delightful again! A few months later and we're glad to announce that Firefoo is now live for everyone to use!

Some features include

- Table View

- Export to JSON and CSV

- JavaScript Query Shell

- Batch Edit Documents

- Geo Point Map

We'd love to hear your thoughts and will be around in the comments all day!

- Mathis & Moritz

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Re:Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript q... by mritchie712 on Monday May 17, 2021 @12:19PM (#27185195)

Looks great! How did you make the decision to go Electron vs. a web app?

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Re:Show HN: GUI client for Cloud Firestore with JavaScript q... by xathis on Monday May 17, 2021 @12:43PM (#27185445)

Thanks! It's for security reasons. We want to keep all the data locally on the user's computer, so your data will never touch our or a third party's server (other than Google). If we piped the requests through a backend, nobody could verify that we're not reading the content of your data or secrets.

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