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Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM

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Firenook is a Rust-based, drop-in replacement for Google's Firebase Local Emulator Suite, released as version 0.2.1 and shown on Hacker News. It keeps existing firebase.json files, SDKs, ports and data formats, needs no Java, and runs Firestore, Auth, Storage, Functions, Pub/Sub and other services.

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