flutterfire VS flutterfire_desktop

Sure, sure. You are special and ahead of Flutterfire issues: https://github.com/firebase/flutterfire/issues/10353

The lack of full native Dart support, slow build times, sketchy workarounds, and no desktop support led me searching for another solution. After many hours of research, I was faced with the choice between two frameworks: Appwrite and Supabase. Both were great frameworks and both fit my use case perfectly. But, I decided to move forward with Supabase because of their philosophy of “ not reinventing the wheel”.

For the moment, the pre-compiled SDK doesn't work with the latest flutter firebase libraries: https://github.com/firebase/flutterfire/issues/9761 So it takes an hour to build my project in GitHub action. I can't live with it!

You could write your own bash script or CLI to help manage these tasks. However, this costs you some time. In order to deal with these tasks more quickly, you can use community tools, like Melos, Very Good CLI, or Sidekick. In this article, we are going to use Melos. Melos is also used by repositories like FlutterFire, AWS Amplify (Flutter), Flame, and Plus Plugins.

In the comparison, we focus more on the Sharezone app because Sharezone is a real production app with +300,000 registered users. It uses a bunch of dependencies, like many of the Firebase packages and several other ones (Sharezone is open source — you can find all the dependencies here). Therefore, you will see very realistic build times.

Flutter Fire is the name given to the plugins that integrate Firebase within a Flutter app. There are basically two ways to integrate Firebase into a Flutter app: integration via configuration files, which is done in the native parts of the app, or a newer automated and faster mechanism that was created recently. In this tutorial we are going to use the latter, to do so you have at your disposal an exhaustive explanation in the official documentation, where basically they ask you to install Firebase CLI on your system, and then enable FlutterFire CLI.

Either https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new or https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/flutterfire/issues/new/choose

.gitignore file in invertase/flutterfire_desktop

With that comes an important question: how much of the Flutter ecosystem is ready for Desktop? We can't tell yet, but we have great news for you. FlutterFire on Desktop is making its first big step, and as of today we're excited to announce that our sponsored package FlutterFire Auth on Linux and Windows is moving to stable 🎉

Firebase Flutter Windows support is about to come: flutterfire_desktop

Invertase, the company bringing Firebase integration to Flutter,  is working on FlutterFire for desktop. More specifically they are adding Linux and Windows support. MacOS is already (partially) supported. The interesting part is that they are building a universal SDK using Dart, which means that they could also move the existing platforms to use the same Dart SDK, while they are now using the existing SDKs available for each platform. They can keep to code separated by using federated plugins. It is still unknown when all the different services from Firebase will be ready for desktop, but it is good to know that they are working on it. The code is open source, so, if you like, you can contribute via the official repository.