Please improve the documentation

Hi, I am very new to Vue and Firebase, so I wanted to try Vuefire. However I feel that the “Getting Started” section is a bit lacking and I can’t even get my very first Vuefire project to run as I keep getting an error about this specific line:

export { TimeStamp, GeoPoint } = firebase.firestore

All other Vuefire tutorials I’ve found on the internet also seem to be for an outdated version, so it’s difficult to understand what is wrong.

Perhaps I am just too inexperienced?

[natalia-sulkama]

You are not even saying the error you have nor the environment you are trying to make it work with: is it with vue-cli, nuxt, an HTML page? This gives me no information about what to improve 😕 Anyway, I added an entry to #145

I’m sorry, I completely forgot to provide any actual info - I am using vue-cli, and the error is the following:

SyntaxError: .../db.js: Unexpected token, expected ";" (7:31)

   5 | 
   6 | // Export types that exists in Firestore
 > 7 | export { TimeStamp, GeoPoint } = firebase.firestore
     |                                ^
   8 | 
   9 | // if using Firebase JS SDK < 5.8.0
  10 | db.settings({ timestampsInSnapshots: true })

The documentation does seem to be incomplete. I’ve used previous versions of Vuefire and the configuration is really different. Hi, that syntax looks off in the line you mentioned. Try just using

export { TimeStamp, GeoPoint }

I’m not sure if that’s even needed if you don’t plan on using TimeStamp or GeoPoint. Previous versions of firestore required a timestamp settings configuration but I think the newer versions of the sdk don’t require that anymore.

I also realised that this line was not needed at least in my case, so eventually I managed to get Vuefire to work with my app. But I believe at least for less experienced programmers such as myself the documentation is a little vague - in addition to the export { TimeStamp, GeoPoint } = firebase.firestore confusion, Vuefire would not work at least in my case by just following the documentation which I think is pretty disorienting.

In the Getting Started page, there is no mention of actually including Firebase itself before adding the Vuefire tutorial code for getting a Firestore instance. Even if this may seem completely obvious to most people, I believe it’s worth noting for clarity’s sake:

var firebase = require("firebase/app");
require("firebase/firestore");

// Get a Firestore instance
export const db = firebase
  .initializeApp({ projectId: 'project-id' })
  .firestore()

I hope this helps 🙂Thank you for the great plugin!

[posva]

Thanks, that makes more sense! I adapted the export statement and added a comment to the relevant section in both vuefire and vuexfire docs