How do I use Cloud DataStore or Cloud SQL from Cloud Functions for Firebase?

Question

I'm building a Firebase app, and plan to use the real-time database when I need real-time updates. However, most of the application data is more traditional.

Now that Functions is a thing, how do I also leverage either DataStore or CloudSQL? Can anyone point me to specific documentation or examples how to read/write with either of those services from a function?

Answer 1

Neither Cloud Datastore nor Cloud SQL support Cloud Functions yet, which means you aren't yet able to trigger Cloud Functions based on their events the way you can with the Firebase Realtime Database.

Fortunately, once a Cloud Function has been triggered (for example via HTTP), you can still read and write from Datastore and SQL as you would from any other Node.js code. Here is documentation for Cloud Datastore, and here it is for Cloud SQL.

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