What are Google Cloud functions good for?

Google Cloud Functions is a serverless execution environment for building and connecting cloud services . With Cloud Functions you write simple, single-purpose functions that are attached to events emitted from your cloud infrastructure and services. Your function is triggered when an event being watched is fired.

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Does firebase work on emulator?

The Firebase Local Emulator Suite consists of individual service emulators built to accurately mimic the behavior of Firebase services . This means you can connect your app directly to these emulators to perform integration testing or QA without touching production data.

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