Advanced offline caching techniques in Cloud Firestore

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A demo e-commerce app called FireSale shows how the Firestore SDK cache provides offline reads and queues mutations using getDocs, addDoc and onSnapshot, with persistence via enableIndexedDbPersistence (enabled by default on Android/iOS, manual on web). Bundles generated by an Admin SDK and stored in Cloud Storage are loaded with loadBundle so 10,000 users avoid repeated server reads, cutting an estimated 3,750,000 reads to about 2,250 billed reads (>99% savings). SDK-side acceleration uses client-side indexing via setIndexConfiguration to keep cache queries fast.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:44Demo
3. 5:17Cost model
4. 9:30Clientside indexing

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