Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions

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Cloud Functions for Firebase is a serverless framework that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and (experimentally) Dart backend code in response to events like HTTPS requests, Firestore/Realtime Database changes, Auth triggers, and scheduled jobs. The associated repositories provide the functions SDK and a large library of quickstart and sample apps demonstrating each trigger type.

Use cases

• run backend code in response to firestore events
• create https api endpoints without managing servers
• trigger functions on firebase auth user signup
• process cloud storage file uploads automatically
• schedule recurring jobs with cloud scheduler
• build callable functions for flutter apps in dart
• stream responses from callable functions to clients

When to choose

• you already use Firebase and want event-driven backend logic integrated with its services
• you want zero-maintenance autoscaling functions on Google Cloud infrastructure
• you want official samples and quickstarts for every trigger type in Node, Python, or Dart

When to avoid

• you need long-running or compute-heavy workloads unsuited to function timeouts
• you want to avoid the Blaze pay-as-you-go billing plan required for deployment
• you need a self-hosted or cloud-provider-agnostic serverless solution

Facets

framework · maturity active

serverless web-framework api-framework webhook sdk workflow-automation cloud-computing backend web-development apis developer-tools python cloud serverless cross-platform firebase google-cloud cloud-functions faas event-driven samples quickstarts nodejs

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