Firebase functions in Go or Python

[taraspos]

Hey, I don't really understand is it possible to write Firebase functions in Go or Python (since Google Cloud Functions supports them). Would like to see some examples!

[CodingDoug]

There's one detail that's important to understand. There is just one product called Google Cloud Functions (there is not actually a product called "Firebase Functions"). Firebase provides tools and libraries to use on top of GCF. GCF supports multiple language runtimes, but Firebase only provides tools and SDKs for node JavaScript on node right now.

You are free to use either the Google Cloud tools (gcloud) or the Firebase tools (the Firebase CLI) for deploying functions. If you want to target python or go, you will have to use gcloud, which is described as part of Cloud documentation. If you want to use the Firebase tools, you are limited to JavaScript on node. Either way, the underlying GCF product works exactly the same.

You can read more about what's different between Firebase and Google Cloud with respect to the Cloud Functions product in this blog.

[LockedThread]

This should be re-opened and considered for future development. Using Golang is becoming a widely preferred language over JavaScript because of the performance increases, along with that I don't see that making a Golang library for handling Firebase Functions would be difficult because you already have the underlying Google Cloud Function support for Golang.

[softmarshmallow]

Seconded

[betoop]

thirded

[nitaigao]

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[yhfy2006]

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[vctqs1]

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