Cloud Firestore Best Practices

Although Firestore is indeed a good and efficient tool for app development, we can take measures to improve its efficiency. There are various techniques we can employ in every stage of development to ensure we’re getting the best from Firebase in terms of scalability, security, and performance.

These best practices include:

General

• Choose the database location that is closest to the users and computing resources when building the database instance. This requires that we evaluate our target users and where the majority of them are geographically, as long-distance network hops increase query latency and make errors more likely to occur.

• Avoid monotonic document names. For example, customer 1, customer 2 ....... ...