Firebase Firestore Increment FieldValue does not increment

Question

so i\'ve read all the documentation everything about increment a counter in a Firestore database. I have this code

const admin = require(\"firebase-admin\");
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Answer 1

For anyone having issues with this, be careful to use the .update() method instead .set(). Also you need to have a value existing in the firestore that so it has something to increment.