Using AngularFirestore Collection orderBy with snapShotChanges method

Question

I have below code in an Angular application which is using AngularFire2.

TypeScript:

constructor(db: AngularFirestore) {
    this.booksCollectionRef = db.collection<Book>('books');

    this.books = this.booksCollectionRef.snapshotChanges().map(actions => {
        return actions.map(action => {
            const data = action.payload.doc.data() as Book;
            const id = action.payload.doc.id;
            return { id, ...data };
        });
    });
}

HTML:

<md-list>
    <md-list-item *ngFor="let book of books | async">
        <h4 md-line>{{book.name}}</h4>
    </md-list-item>
</md-list>

This code retrieves and binds data as expected (removes items when collection updated), now I want to sort the collection by a given column. I tried to use firebase orderBy clause, but I can not figure out how to use it with snapShotChanges() method.

Answer 1

The following should work for your use case:

this.booksCollectionRef = db.collection<Book>('books', ref => ref.orderBy('order field'));

Take a look at the documentation of AngularFirestore for further information on this topic.

Answer 2

this.announcementCollectionRef = afs.collection<Announcement>('announcements', ref => ref.orderBy('createdAt', 'desc')); this.announcements = this.announcementCollectionRef.snapshotChanges().map(actions => { return actions.map(a => { const data = a.payload.doc.data() as AnnouncementId; const id = a.payload.doc.id; return { id, ...data }; }); });

Answer 3

Not sure about Angular Fire, but you can try using the Firebase Firestore libraries directly.

The following code works for me:

someCollectionRef
.orderBy('columnName')
.onSnapshot((snapshot) => {
snapshot.docChanges.forEach(function (change) {
...doStuff