Changelog

• A stable version

  npm install firenook and a bare npx firenook get 0.2.0 on any Node from 20 up; previews keep their own versions, and a preview install is told about 0.2.0.

• firenook init in a terminal

  One screen with every choice made (the project id, the emulators on their usual ports, TypeScript, JavaScript or no Functions, the coding agents, the set-up), then the installs, Firenook pinned, the first build and the emulators started in the same terminal.

• TypeScript compiled as you save

  --build runs each codebase's own build:watch beside the engine and starts it after the first compile; errors show in the log.

• Ordered and range queries

  An order-preserving field index serves orderBy, range filters and cursors on a top-level field, and checks equality on other fields before a document is read; a batch get writes stored documents straight into the reply.

• Node 22, 24 and 26

  Older is refused with how to switch; an odd or newer major starts with a warning; a codebase whose engines.node asks for another Node is warned about, as the official emulator warns.

• Older Linux

  The engines need glibc 2.28 (RHEL 8, Debian 10, Ubuntu 20.04, node:24-slim and later) instead of 2.39; Alpine and older systems are told what they lack.

• Security Rules as the official emulator applies them

  A gRPC request without an Authorization header is signed out, not the owner.

• Nothing reaches production

  The console's snippets (Python Storage, Apple Firestore, Tasks and Eventarc everywhere) and emulators:exec, which now sets the official variables for the running emulators only.

• Functions

  Params' defaults, .env.<alias>, the .env values at discovery, the project firebase use chose, warnings for triggers on services that do not run, functions:invoke --help, ext:vendor --offline, the Firebase login on Windows.

• REST

  createDocument works, and every v1 method answers as the official emulator does (the differences kept are listed in COMPATIBILITY.md).

• Starts and stops

  Two suites with one project id; Firestore closed after browser sessions; a killed launcher stops its engine, which saves the data; --import without metadata and a bad indexes file warn; firebase.json found from a folder inside the project; localhost and ::1 bound as officially.

• Polish

  init --force keeps your rules, init --adopt keeps your formatting, --ui comes before ui.enabled: false, counts agree with their nouns, every service's lines reach the screen, CI=false is not CI.

Your data: Data 0.2.0 saves opens in 0.2.0-next.8, which rebuilds its own field index first; no emulator protocol or port changed, except that localhost now binds ::1 as well for the hub and the console, as officially.

The 0.1 releases were published as @fireside-dev/cli, before Firenook’s rename. About the former name.