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[FR] - Firebase Admin Lite

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Since Feb 26, 2026.

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api: firestore type: feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently Firebase cannot run on Deno, Cloudflare, Vercel Edge, or Bun (among others). Firebase will mainly be used in Node Serverless environments with Cold Starts, which are unacceptable for many app developers.

Describe the solution you'd like
If you don't require Authentication, you can use the "Firestore Lite" package. However, we cannot use Authentication or the Server Functions in order to keep our session. This is a HUGE problem and limits where Firebase can be deployed.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Using the REST API. However, it is EXTREMELY cumbersome in order to convert JSON data to the data types that REST API uses, as well as the problems handling tokens etc.

Additional context

It would be nice to be able to use the FirebaseServerApp as well, but this would not have ALL the features we may need in other JS environments.

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