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firebase-rules
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jahed / firebase-rules

firebase-rules

A type-safe Firebase Real-time Database Security Rules builder. Compose and re-use common rules. Reference constants used throughout the project. Catch any errors and typos. Auto-completion.

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0Explicit recommenders
9GitHub stars
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What it is

A type-safe Firebase Real-time Database Security Rules builder. Compose and re-use common rules. Reference constants used throughout the project. Catch any errors and typos. Auto-completion.

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Observed mentions: 2020-09-17 14:06:55 UTC to 2021-05-16 18:05:31 UTC.

012020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 2021

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Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Feb 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20212021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Night Patrol - https://github.com/jahed/night-patrol I got tired of passing flags to Nightwatch to filter tests and looking through results to re-run failures. So I made an interactive CLI for all of that. I stopped using this once I moved to Cypress but even with Cypress' web interface, I feel something like Night Patrol would be a lot more productive. Firebase Rules - https://github.com/jahed/firebase-rules I didn't like how Firebase's RTDB rules were expressions in JSON strings so I built a library to build them using a lisp-like syntax to compose and re-use rules. Firebase also has its own rules language (Bolt) but I'd rather not learn and maintain yet another tool-specific language. Promises - https://github.com/jahed/promises This isn't a complete solution yet, I didn't get time to refine the API. But I really prefer using Promises
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as result types (a.k.a. either, left/right) rather than using async/await/try/catch. It's so much more powerful to write code in a way that doesn't care if your functions are async or sync. Again, kind of like a lisp, there's also power in not being tied to a language's keywords and being able to provide a more tailored vocabulary.
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