Are firestore bindings supposed to update, or only read?

[ldiebold]

I've been using useFirestore to keep data in sync and am a little confused 😅

When I update data in the UI, it changes on the frontend (as expected)

However, updating the ref on the frontend does not update data in the cloud. Is this the expected behaviour?

If so, perhaps the docs need to be clearer? The following implies to me that updates to the ref will also update data in the cloud...

Making it straightforward to always keep your local data in sync with remotes databases.

Let me know if a code example is needed, or if I simply misunderstood the docs 😄

[wheatjs]

I don't believe it will actually set data by updating a ref. Maybe we can update the types for the Ref to be readonly.

[ldiebold]

Okay, thankyou!

There's still some potential benefit of allowing it to change. e.g. optimistic UIs perhaps.

[wheatjs]

Perhaps we could have an option in useFirestore that will enable automatically updating a firestore doc when you update a ref