When should I use cloud functions?

Developers can use Cloud Functions to keep users engaged and up to date with relevant information about an app . Consider, for example, an app that allows users to follow one another’s activities in the app. Each time a user adds themselves as a follower of another user, a write occurs in the Realtime Database.

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How do you deploy a cloud function?

Deployment. Deployments work by uploading an archive containing your function’s source code to a Cloud Storage bucket . Once the source code has been uploaded, Cloud Build automatically builds your code into a container image and pushes that image to either Artifact Registry or Container Registry.

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Does firebase functions support ES6?

The long answer about why this is a complicated problem has been discussed in some blogs, for example here and here. EDIT: The firebase CLI now supports projects using TypeScript, which gives you access to ES7 syntax. It will automatically compile that down to ES6 for deployment to Cloud Functions .

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