Firebase Cloud Firestore throws “client is offline”

Question

About 3 out of 4 times loading the page I get this error from the firestore client SDK (web). This slows development down tremendously. Auth, Realtime DB and Storage work pe

Answer 1

There's currently an interaction between the clients and routing on the backend that results in this problem. As a result the client believes the network is failing and goes offline.

We'll be rolling out a fix for this soon. Exact times I can't promise but this is among our top priority issues to fix.

Thanks for your patience.