Getting all documents from one collection in Firestore

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Hi I m starting with javascript and react-native and I m trying to figure out this problem for hours now  Can someone explain me how to get all the documents from firestore collection    I have been trying this    async getMarkers       const events   await firebase firestore   collection  events   get        then querySnapshot   gt          querySnapshot docs map doc   gt            console log  LOG 1   doc data             return doc data                        console log  LOG 2   events     return events      Log 1 prints all the objects one by one  but log 2 is undefined  why

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The example in the other answer is unnecessarily complex   This would be more straightforward  if all you want to do is return the raw data objects for each document in a query or collection   async getMarker         const snapshot   await firebase firestore   collection  events   get       return snapshot docs map doc   gt  doc data

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if you want include Id  async getMarkers       const events   await firebase firestore   collection  events     events get   then  querySnapshot    gt          const tempDoc   querySnapshot docs map  doc    gt            return   id  doc id     doc data                    console log tempDoc             Same way with array   async getMarkers       const events   await firebase firestore   collection  events     events get   then  querySnapshot    gt          const tempDoc            querySnapshot forEach  doc    gt             tempDoc push   id  doc id     doc data                     console log tempDoc

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Try following LOCs     let query   firestore collection  events        let response           await query get   then querySnapshot   gt              let docs   querySnapshot docs            for  let doc of docs                  const selectedEvent                          id  doc id                       item  doc data   event                                   response push selectedEvent                  return response

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Two years late but I just began reading the Firestore documentation recently cover to cover for fun and found withConverter which I saw wasn t posted in any of the above answers   Thus  If you want to include ids and also use withConverter  Firestore s version of ORMs  like ActiveRecord for Ruby on Rails  Entity Framework for  NET  etc   then this might be useful for you  Somewhere in your project  you probably have your Event model properly defined   For example  something like  Your model  in TypeScript     models Event js export class Event     constructor       public id  string      public title  string      public datetime  Date        export const eventConverter       toFirestore  function  event  Event        return            id  event id      Note  Not in  quot  data   quot  of the model        title  event title        datetime  event datetime              fromFirestore  function  snapshot  any  options  any        const data   snapshot data options      const id   snapshot id     return new Event id  data title  data datetime         And then your client-side TypeScript code  import   eventConverter   from    models Event js        async function loadEvents        const qs   await firebase firestore   collection  events        orderBy  datetime   limit 3      Remember to limit return sizes       withConverter eventConverter  get      const events   qs docs map  doc  any    gt  doc data               Two interesting quirks of Firestore to notice  or at least  I thought were interesting    Your event id is actually stored  quot one-level-up quot  in snapshot id and not snapshot data     If you re using TypeScript  the TS linter  or whatever it s called  sadly isn t smart enough to understand    const events   qs docs map  doc  Event    gt  doc data    even though right above it you explicitly stated   withConverter eventConverter  Which is why it needs to be doc  any   But   You will actually get Array lt Event gt  back   Not Array lt Map gt  back   That s the entire point of withConverter    That way if you have any object methods  not shown here in this example   you can immediately use them   It makes sense to me but I guess I ve gotten so greedy spoiled that I just kinda expect my VS Code  ESLint  and the TS Watcher to literally do everything for me   Oh well   Formal docs  about withConverter and more  here  https   firebase google com docs firestore query-data get-data custom objects

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I prefer to hide all code complexity in my services    so  I generally use something like this      In my events service ts      async getEvents             const snapchot   await this db collection  events   ref get            return new Promise  lt Event   gt   resolve   gt                const v   snapchot docs map x   gt                    const obj   x data                    obj id   x id                  return obj as Event                              resolve v                       In my sth page ts        myList  Event        construct private service  EventsService        async ngOnInit           this myList   await this service getEvents            Enjoy

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if you need to include the key of the document in the response  another alternative is   async getMarker         const snapshot   await firebase firestore   collection  events   get       const documents           snapshot forEach doc   gt           documents doc id    doc data                return documents

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I made it work this way   async getMarkers       const markers         await firebase firestore   collection  events   get        then querySnapshot   gt          querySnapshot docs forEach doc   gt          markers push doc data                     return markers

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You could get the whole collection as an object  rather than array like this   async getMarker         const snapshot   await firebase firestore   collection  events   get       const collection           snapshot forEach doc   gt            collection doc id    doc data                return collection      That would give you a better representation of what s in firestore  Nothing wrong with an array  just another option

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Here s a simple version of the top answer  but going into an object with the document ids  async getMarker         const snapshot   await firebase firestore   collection  events   get       return snapshot docs reduce function  acc  doc  i                  acc doc id    doc data                  return acc

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