What is snapshotchanges in firestore

Question

this function is called by the constructor. can someone explain in depth to me what it does?

  initializeItems(){
this.travelList$ = this.plsdala.getTravelLi         


        

Answer 1

It is current state of firestore collection. It returns an Observable of data. You would use it whenever you want to be able to get also your metadata as documentID as opposed to using for example valueChanges() which returns Observable containing data saved in document only. It does not contain metadata.

This means that you would usually use valueChanges() to get data and snapshotChanges() whenever you might need metadata, eg. deleting or updating document.

Your code basically gets data and metadata of document and extracts just data from it. Then it reverses the data to go from end of the collection to the beginning.