Firebase, from the comfort of your terminal.

LazyFire is a keyboard-driven terminal app for Firebase. Browse projects, databases and Firestore documents, run queries, and read Cloud Functions logs without opening the console.

$ brew install marjoballabani/tap/lazyfire

Read the guide GitHub

lazyfire

Projects

* Shop (prod)
Shop (staging)
Analytics (dev)

1 of 3

Databases

* (default)

Collections - Functions - Storage >

users
products
reviews
carts

1 of 4

Tree

0 of 0

Details

─── Project Info ───​
​
  ID:    shop-prod​
  Name:  Shop (prod)​
​
  Press Space to select project​

Commands

✓ auth Using local Firebase/gcloud authentication

space selectS scan/ filterr refreshj/k movetab panels? helpshop-prod

This is a working replica with sample data. Click it and try tab j kspace enter 0 and ?. esc gives the page its keys back.

Everything is one key away

No menus to learn. The bar at the bottom shows the keys for the panel you are in.

Move around

tabshift+tab: Cycle through Projects, Databases, Collections and Tree.
1to4: Jump straight to a panel. 0 jumps to the document.
?: List every key that works where you are, and run one from the list.

Browse data

space: Pick a project or database, open a collection, expand a document.
/: Filter any list as you type. In a document, filter lines or run a jq query.
F: Build a Firestore query with where clauses, ordering and a limit.

Inspect

y: Copy the value under the cursor. c copies the whole document as JSON.
T: Show timestamps as readable dates next to the raw values.
S: Check every collection against Firestore size, depth and index limits.

Beyond Firestore

[]: Switch to Cloud Functions and their logs, Storage, Auth users, rules and indexes.
L: Show only function logs at or above a severity.

All keybindings

Install

LazyFire uses your existing firebase login. There is nothing else to set up.

Homebrew: brew install marjoballabani/tap/lazyfire
Go: go install github.com/marjoballabani/lazyfire@latest
Binaries: macOS, Linux and Windows builds are on the releases page.

Installation guide

Firebase Console or LazyFire

Task	Firebase Console	LazyFire
Switch projects	Click through menus	1, then j/k and space
Switch databases	Pick one on every page	2, then space
Open subcollections	Click, wait, click again	space
Check document limits	Not available	Shown with every document
Scan collection health	One document at a time	S
Query documents	Web form	F
Copy a document as JSON	Select, copy, reformat	c
Read function logs	Separate Cloud Logging page	] to the Logs tab