Strapi with Firebase

[seamug]

Hi

Is there any instruction on setting up Strapi on Firebase?

Thanks
Hisham

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Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

What is the current behavior?

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce the problem

What is the expected behavior?

[storm1er]

I don't think so, firebase is using is own api, if you want to do so, you'll probably have to create a new database query structure (like they already did with postgresql, etc)

[Aurelsicoko]

@seamug Thank you for this feature request! You're not the first one and host the data on Firebase isn't one of our priority. We are working to integrate Strapi with DaaS such as mLab, Mongo Atlas, etc. Maybe we will integrate Strapi with Firebase though.

[nodox]

I do wish this would support firebase as the database. How do I write my own plugin or data provider to connect with Firebase?

[Aurelsicoko]

@nodox We already have two connectors Mongoose and Bookshelf. I didn't check how we could support Firebase but it could be a great thing 👍

[tohagan]

+1

[samlogan]

+1

[JREAM]

+1

[Aurelsicoko]

@tohagan @samlogan @JREAM Are we agree that you're using Firebase as a database only? Because it offers a lot of others features such as push notifications, authentication, etc. I would like to know what exactly you're looking for with this integration?

[samlogan]

@Aurelsicoko database only for me

[Aurelsicoko]

@samlogan Thank you for the answer! We will consider a new connector to Firebase but if you need it now, the best way is to contribute to the project and create the strapi-hook-firebase package 👍

[lauriejim]

Visit our Contributing Guide to start your development.

[rrubio]

+1

[typerory]

@Aurelsicoko Google Firebase platform gives you two databases. The Realtime database and the new Firestore. With Firestore you can create collections and documents and inside of a document you can create more collections. It has a rest API and a Node SDK.

[Aurelsicoko]

I've created a private card on Product Board (you can see the public roadmap here). I'm closing this issue because we've enough information and use cases to develop the feature. However, this is not our priority and we would love to see the community create the connector. Feel free to ping me if you want more details.

[HausOfAlejandro]

Any news on this?, really looking for using Strapi with Firestore. :-)

[derrickmehaffy]

No news @HausOfAlejandro. More than likely someone in the community would need to work on it

[rjain15]

+1, I need firebase (or firestore) instead of mongodb storage. Can I take the mongo provider and change the code (not sure how much is the effort) to support firebase?

[storm1er]

@rjain15 You can use mongodb provider as a base, but don't edit it, you better create your own provider.

[feelosophical88]

@rjain15 Did you ever get around to trying out Firestore?

[camillo777]

Yes now that mLab is out, you should include in Strapi support for serverless DB like Firestore or FaunaDB.

[lauriejim]

There is a documentation about MongoDB Atlas.
Here is the documentation 📚

[alexgorgos]

+1

[majirosstefan]

+1

[siberder]

+1

[wh1337]

+1

[derrickmehaffy]

For the moment Strapi has stated they will not work on this themselves, It was recommended that the community work on creating a connector for this.

You can take a look at the current connectors to get an idea of the amount of work needed.
strapi-connector-mongoose
strapi-connector-bookshelf

I have locked this conversation as nothing new/useful is being added