Cloud Firestore collection count

Question

Is it possible to count how many items a collection has using the new Firebase database, Cloud Firestore?

If so, how do I do that?

Answer 1

Took me a while to get this working based on some of the answers above, so I thought I'd share it for others to use. I hope it's useful.

'use strict';

const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const admin = require('firebase-admin');
admin.initializeApp();
const db = admin.firestore();

exports.countDocumentsChange = functions.firestore.document('library/{categoryId}/documents/{documentId}').onWrite((change, context) => {

    const categoryId = context.params.categoryId;
    const categoryRef = db.collection('library').doc(categoryId)
    let FieldValue = require('firebase-admin').firestore.FieldValue;

    if (!change.before.exists) {

        // new document created : add one to count
        categoryRef.update({numberOfDocs: FieldValue.increment(1)});
        console.log("%s numberOfDocs incremented by 1", categoryId);

    } else if (change.before.exists && change.after.exists) {

        // updating existing document : Do nothing

    } else if (!change.after.exists) {

        // deleting document : subtract one from count
        categoryRef.update({numberOfDocs: FieldValue.increment(-1)});
        console.log("%s numberOfDocs decremented by 1", categoryId);

    }

    return 0;
});