DEV LOG: Linking VSCode and Firebase

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VSC Extension Storage

Managing a VSC extension with state is not a trivial decision. There are tradeoffs in speed, memory allocation, and AFAIK no way to store locally on disk outside of Memento.

Firebase-admin take cares of the heavy lifting of state. By using the service account set up in Firebase, “local data” can be emulated in the cloud. The trick is to load Firebase after the extension has been activated. The path to service account can be stored as a env variable in local VSC settings.

// extension.ts

import * as firebase from './firebase.js';

...

export function activate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
  console.log(firebase.db) // db object
}

// firebase.js

var admin = require("firebase-admin");
const { getFirestore, Timestamp, FieldValue } = require('firebase-admin/firestore');
var serviceAccount = require("./service-acct.json");

admin.initializeApp({
  credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount)
});

export const db = getFirestore();

// service-acct.json

{
    "type": "service_account",
    "project_id": "my_proj_id",
    "private_key_id": "my_secret",
    ...
}

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