firebase-admin-python VS firebase-admin-go

They have client side and server side libraries. I've used it on a project recently where I used the python library with flask on the server and the js library on the frontend with Vue. This means you do not need to build an API between your client and server for database specific things, which is awesome. I hate the boilerplate REST api code that I've built 100 times. The server app can push code into the database, and the client can subscribe to changes and get updates in real time with a few lines of code.

I recently tried to fork the firebase-admin-go package and add a few edits that I need for a project. I decided to use a replace directive in my go.mod file but when I do I get this error:

I found this Github Issue on the official firebase SDK asking about event listeners. The developer asking the question wrote an entire addition to integrate event listeners into the SDK and even signed a Google Contributor Licenses but it does not look like this will be integrated. Is there a way that I can take the logic that is already written and put it into my application rather than writing a wrapper around the firebase REST streaming API? It is essentially already written with this pull request.

To use it without the JS SDK, you need to create a server which integrates with their API. This usually means pulling an SDK in on your server which is often okay, though I did find their Go SDK (https://github.com/firebase/firebase-admin-go) rough on the edges. We ultimately abandoned using the service... I think if your integration requires any fine tuning or integration with other services, you might want to look elsewhere.