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firebase-mock
Advanced tools
Firebase Mock 
Firebase Mock extends mockfirebase to provide support for the following Firebase Javascript SDKS:
Setup
npm install firebase-mock --save-dev
Follow the steps in the Setup Tutorial to create a mock SDK to be used in your tests. Then follow one of the tutorials below based on your testing framework:
API
Firebase Mock supports the client-side JavaScript API and server-side Admin API plus a small set of utility methods documented fully in the API Reference. Rather than make a server call that is actually asynchronous, Firebase Mock allows you to either trigger callbacks synchronously or asynchronously with a specified delay (ref.flush).
Tutorials
Client (firebase)
Admin (firebase-admin)
- Authentication
- Realtime Database
- Firestore
- Storage
Functions (firebase-functions)
Alternatives
FAQs
Firebase mock library for writing unit tests
The npm package firebase-mock receives a total of 7,630 weekly downloads. As such, firebase-mock popularity was classified as popular.
We found that firebase-mock demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 30 Dec 2019
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