flutterfire VS melos

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

Install melos (more details about melos: https://melos.invertase.dev/)

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.

Melos has been super useful for us in being able to write shortcuts to run all our unit tests and dart analyze for a combination of packages - to ensure that whenever we update a package which is shared between the mobile app and web app.