Extremely Sluggish

Hi, I’ve been enjoying Project IDX for quite awhile now, and I understand you’ve just released it to the public as Firebase Studio. But now it is extremely slow. It is barely usable, and that is only with the hope of improvement. For example, just a code completion now - which previously would have taken less than a second is taking multiple seconds. Just hitting up arrow in the integrated terminal takes about a second to show the previous history entry.

Is this just an increased load because of the popularity, an issue with a new Gemini/other integration, or is this the new normal for the free version? And are you already aware of this issue?

Thanks for all your hard work.

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Make it faster and I will start paying for it right away!!!

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Hi @ibgib, I think it is due to a problem in the migration to Firebase Studio. In my personal case, I only had to delete the existing project in idx and import it again from GitHub to Firebase Studio and it worked correctly and as smoothly as always.

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Ah interesting! Thank you for sharing that with me. Unfortunately my project is not that simple. It is a monorepo with multiple libs and apps with 100K+ LoC. And it is STRONGLY my belief that, after being literally the greatest software - and software monopoly - for the past 20 years, git has too much technical debt going forward when considering AI-generated code. So I don’t use git, and I can’t talk about what I do use because it will be regarded as spam. Suffice to say, it takes quite awhile with IDX’s interface to re-populate the project.

Well, it’s been 8 days with no word on this and no progress on the issue. Any chance there is about to be a new release that fixes this? It’s unusable now in the afternoons for me personally (Central Time, US) and I have to wait until the following morning. It’s not really tenable going forward.

@ibgib - sorry for the delay in getting back to you! For urgent issues, you should file a support ticket: Contact Support  |  Firebase

For this issue in particular, can you share with me your workspace URL? I can have our team investigate what is going on.