I'm the dev/designer at Firebase who made Vulcan during one of our experiment weeks. I've been using it for pretty much all my Firebase development since. Let me know if you have feedback!
How much large of a list have you opened up in it? 1k? 10k? I don't have a Firebase with a ton of children off a leaf or else I'd test it myself. ( =
I notice that it's a DevTools panel. I expected it to be able to read the Firebase I was using in my app, but it asked for a URL instead. Since it's not related to the app I'm looking at, maybe it should have its own page instead of being in the DevTools? Or be a separate Chrome app?
The security permissions ask for all my data on all websites, but doesn't it really only need to read *.firebaseio.com?
You can insert Vulcan directly into a webpage by following the directions here: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-website. A future feature will be detecting the Firebase URL being used on the page.
You are correct I technically do not need all your security permissions to install vulcan. I plan on fixing this notice, it seems to be the default in the chrome store.
Thanks for the feedback.
I've been thinking a lot about how to solve this and I don't really have any answers. Curious if you're doing something different.
When you open a node there is not network request, there is an open socket connection that data passes through.
Its usually not necessary to display all items in a 10k plus list as there is generally no use case for a user scrolling through a list that large. Search and showing a truncated list that renders efficiently would be a good approach. Ultimately the problem we are tying to solve is helping a user find the data they are looking for. hope that helps.