@capacitor-firebase/firestore adding 1000s lines of pods

[jongbonga]

After replacing @angular/fire with @capacitor-firebase/firestore, build and sync my app, I noticed more than 1k lines of pod added.
notably abseil, BoringSSL-GRPC, gRPC-Core, leveldb-library & Libuv-gRPC.

I understand the plugin is still on dev according to its versioning. What I want to know is if those PODs are required for the plugin to work and what would be the implication in terms of bundle size

[robingenz]

Yes, those pods are required. The only dependency that the plugin needs (excluding Capacitor) is FirebaseFirestore (see

capacitor-firebase/packages/firestore/CapacitorFirebaseFirestore.podspec

Line 16 in 1338d5f

s.dependency 'FirebaseFirestore', '10.8.0'

). These are all sub-dependencies of FirebaseFirestore. I haven't looked at the bundle size yet. But even if the bundle size is big, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for me.

[jongbonga]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I was surprised since your other Firebase plugins come with minimal to no sub-dependencies.

[jongbonga]

My app the size doubled, I have an extra 70mb or so.

[robingenz]

Thanks for sharing! This SO answer contains some more information: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48363445/6731412