Running Firestore local e.g. for testing

Question

Is there a way to run firestore locally (e.g. for testing purposes)?

What would the approach to write tests against the DB (except of using mocks)

Answer 1

There is not currently, but stay tuned as it's something we want to provide.

In the meantime we suggest uses a separate testing project to cover this. The daily free tier per project helps with this too.