Google Firestore: Query on substring of a property value (text search)

Question

I am looking to add a simple search field, would like to use something like

collectionRef.where(\'name\', \'contains\', \'searchTerm\')

I tried

Answer 1

Per the Firestore docs, Cloud Firestore doesn't support native indexing or search for text fields in documents. Additionally, downloading an entire collection to search for fields client-side isn't practical.

Third-party search solutions like Algolia and Elastic Search are recommended.