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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What are Firebase functions for?

Firebase gives mobile developers access to a complete range of fully managed mobile-centric services including analytics, authentication and Realtime Database . Cloud Functions rounds out the offering by providing a way to extend and connect the behavior of Firebase features through the addition of server-side code.

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