https://park.is/categories/firebase/Recent content in Firebase on Ye Joo Park's BlogHugoen-USThu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://park.is/blog_posts/20211028_firebase_useful_functions/Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://park.is/blog_posts/20211028_firebase_useful_functions/<p>I was once an avid user of <a href="https://firebase.google.com/">Firebase</a>. But over time, I gradually became fond of PostgreSQL-backed open-source alternatives like <a href="https://hasura.io/">Hasura</a> or <a href="https://supabase.io/">Supabase</a> and moved on. The two things that I don&rsquo;t miss in Firebase are:</p> <ol> <li>No way to change custom user claims in the dashboard</li> <li>No easy one-click solution to auto-timestamp document updates in Firestore 😤</li> </ol> <p>Here are two Firebase (serverless) functions to make your life easier. <strong>Both are slight modifications of community knowledge from StackOverflow.</strong></p>