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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Is Firebase front end?

Frontend Developers can use Firebase to store and retrieve data to and from a NoSQL database called Firestore, as well as to authenticate their app’s users with the Firebase Auth service . While Firestore, the Realtime Database is really just one big JSON object that the developers can manage in realtime.

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