Comment by Andrés F on "Ask anything to Expo Team"

Hi Guys! thanks for your hard work on Expo.

I would like to know if expo has plans to include "react-native-firebase" into the core?

Many thanks

Hi Andrés!

We're considering this. I am personally (not speaking for the team) not convinced that we need it, and I do not like having to integrate native APIs that are specific to a particular vendor (when we can avoid it). That said, there is clearly a lot of demand for Firebase (as per https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests). You can use the JS SDK for the database, authentication, and very shortly for storage (this will be available in March).

I'm hoping we can put it into the SDK 27 release.

This is a super popular request. We only haven't done it so far because (a) you can do a lot of the things people want to do with Firebase with just JS, esp. now that blob support will be available soon, and (b) there is some complexity with integrating it into Expo, and (c) push notifications just won't work with the Expo model since we can't give out the APNS tokens for the Expo client app to everyone, for example.

But I think it still makes sense to do it so we'll do it soon (unless there are unforeseen complications which there often are with software!! And no promises on date, etc. Just telling you what I'm hoping for.)

As part of the React Native community, we worked with other community members (Philipp from Silk Labs, Satya from Callstack, and Janic from App & Flow) to land preliminary support for Blob uploads in React Native 0.54, which is currently on npm as a release candidate. Support for Blob uploads is by far the most popular Firebase-related request and will let developers upload images to Firebase. We expect Blob uploads to be part of SDK 27.

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