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Set up to run functions locally

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Set up to run functions locally

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- [Instructor] Now that we've gone through the full flow of writing Cloud Functions, building them and deploying them, you might be wondering something and that is, when developing functions, do we really have to deploy our functions in order to test them? Well, fortunately, the answer to this is no, and in this video, we're going to take a look at how to run our functions locally, so that we don't have to wait a minute or two to see any changes we made. Now, the key part of local development in Firebase is something called emulators. Basically, what emulators do is imitate the production software behind things like Cloud Functions in such a way that they can be run on and access on our own machine, and as a matter of fact, it's possible to emulate most of Firebases different services. In this course, we'll only be looking at how to emulate Cloud Functions. But if the need arises, you can quite easily extend…

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