README.md

Presence in Firestore

This template shows you how to build a presence system (understanding which users are online / offline) in Cloud Firestore with some help from the Realtime Database. An explanation of why this is necessary, how it works, and what changes you need to implement in a client app can be found in the docs.

Functions Code

See file functions/index.js for the code.

The dependencies are listed in functions/package.json.

Sample Database Structure

As an example we'll be using a secure note structure:

/status
    /UID_A
        state: "online"
    /UID_B
        state: "offline"

Whenever a new note is created or modified a Function sends the content to be indexed to the Algolia instance.