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Best way to simulate relations
Hello 👋
If I'm not going to use the built-in relations feature because it's still in experimental mode, then what are the best practices for linking documents together? Should I store the IDs in the document fields? And if I have a one-to-many relationship, then should I store the multiple IDs in an array? And create a separate dedicated table for the many-to-many relationships? And simulate the document deletion operations using cloud functions?
TL;DR
To simulate relations without using the experimental feature, developers can store IDs in document fields, use arrays for one-to-many relationships, create a separate table for many-to-many relationships, and simulate document deletion operations using cloud functions.