Firebase - Cloud Functions : Always running functions

Question

I am new on firebase cloud functions. I would like to ask a question about always running or self-triggering functions. How can we handle these things? How can we implement always running functions or self-triggering?

Answer 1

Google Cloud Functions are snippets of code that run in response to events that happen somewhere else. Some example events:

• a HTTPS URL is accessed, either from application code, or in some other way
• a User account is created on Firebase Authentication
• a node is written in the Firebase Realtime Database
• a message is sent to a Cloud PubSub topic

There is no concept on a forever-running function on Cloud Functions (nor on other, similar Functions-as-a-Service offerings), although it's definitely possible to create a function that gets triggered every minute or so (like a cron job).