How to use firestore local emulator in Node.js?

Question

I would like to try firestore local emulator but resources are a bit scattered and it is hard to determine if it is possible in Node.js. Has anyone already done that?

Answer 1

After some nice search, it is pretty easy in fact.

Here is a link to a sample projet I made on github which makes a basic insertion followed by a retrieval.

It uses a docker container to run firestore emulator and @firebase/testing package to interact with it. The setup is straightforward and explained in the README.md.