I spent 7 years fighting Firestore's worst problems. So I built a tool to fix them.

If you've shipped anything beyond a todo app with Firestore, you know the feeling. You start a project and everything is fast, flexible, magical. Six months later you're staring at a security rules file that's 400 lines of unmaintainable custom syntax, your production database has three different shapes of "user" documents, and every new collection means writing the same converter boilerplate all over again. I've been building with Firestore for over seven years. I love it — the real-time sync, the scaling, the developer experience for getting an MVP shipped fast. But the tooling around data modeling, type safety, and schema management? It never caught up. So I built Firemap. The problems nobody warns you about Firestore's flexibility is a double-edged sword. There's no schema enforcement, which means your app code is the only thing standing between you and data chaos. Here's what that looks like in practice: Schema drift is silent and deadly. Your users collection starts clean — { nam