react-native-firebase vs react-redux-firebase?

Question

Background: I have started using react-native-firebase with react-native to integrate with Cloud Firestore. I'm going to start bringing redux into my test application.

Question - Is react-native-firebase ok to continue with as my choice of libraries here? (versus migrating to react-redux-firebase)

Is there an easy way to sum up the difference between the two libraries re when you would you one versus the other? I note with react-native-firebase the installation is quite involved for IOS and Android, so I'm not sure whether react-redux-firebase makes this easier, but if it does do you lose anything in mix?

Answer 1

Main difference:

• react-redux-firebase - for using Firebase with Redux
• react-native-firebase - for using Firebase JS API with react-native

react-redux-firebase actually supports using react-native-firebase. react-native-firebase provides the Firebase JS API while using native-modules under the hood, meaning you can provide that as your Firebase instance to react-redux-firebase like so:

import { compose, createStore } from 'redux';
import RNFirebase from 'react-native-firebase';
import { getFirebase, reactReduxFirebase } from 'react-redux-firebase';
import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
import makeRootReducer from './reducers';

const reactNativeFirebaseConfig = {
  debug: true
};

const reduxFirebaseConfig = {
  userProfile: 'users', // save users profiles to 'users' collection
};

export default (initialState = { firebase: {} }) => {
  // initialize firebase
  const firebase = RNFirebase.initializeApp(reactNativeFirebaseConfig);

  const store = createStore(
    makeRootReducer(),
    initialState,
    compose(
      reactReduxFirebase(firebase, reduxFirebaseConfig), // pass initialized react-native-firebase app instance
     // applyMiddleware can be placed here
    )
  );

  return store;
};

This setup and more is covered in the react-native recipes section of the docs.

Disclaimer: I am one of the authors of react-redux-firebase