Firebase Local Development With Docker

Setup

This example uses docker to run the emulators and yarn as a package manager.

1. Install docker and docker-compose.
2. Run yarn install to install project dependencies. yarn must be installed.

This project uses typescript. You may build the source code by running this command in the root directory.

yarn build

Testing

# run this command in the root directory
yarn test

Important Files

• .firebaserc - Add configuration data related to your firebase project.
• .firebase.json - Add configuration data about your emulators. Enable emulators from this config. They must listen on host IP 0.0.0.0 when using them in the container.

Other Notes

• Use a volume to persist data and the downloaded emulators. The emulators are cached at this path: ~/.cache/firebase.

• You must reference the same fake my-project-id when using the emulators to share data between services.

References

• Firebase Emulator Suite