Firestore is a super easy way to configure your backend. Firestore provides a range of services anywhere from a database, user authentication, to using machine learning for many use-cases. One of the many things you do in a typical app is to enable users to store files. While some find it easier to store files in database (huh?

Firestore can make up for a great backend application. You can get started quite easily, scale it up nicely, and in general, worry less about the “server” side of things. While it is quite easy to use Firestore as-is, using it in Vue opens up a whole new universe. But, first - let’s go through the grind of knowing why we would want to do this?