Attachment replication with Firebase Storage

[FathiGuemri]

After confirming that RxDB does not support attachment replication with Firebase Storage, I set up a manual method to enable it. However, suddenly RxDB supports attachment replication, but only within the same database, which is somewhat good. However, it will affect the database size and its cost significantly for Firestore.

Is there a plan in the future to enable attachment replication with Firebase Storage and others like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage...?

I expect it to be quite simple. Instead of storing attachments in the database, they can be uploaded to Firebase Storage.

I tried to create a pull request on the repository to enable this, but honestly, I'm new to replication protocol and lack understanding of the code. However, this my suggestion:

Add new option attachmentWithFirebaseStorage to the SyncOptionsFirestore type:

export type SyncOptionsFirestore = Omit< ReplicationOptions, 'pull' | 'push' > & { firestore: FirestoreOptions; attachmentWithFirebaseStorage: FirebaseStorage; // this new option serverTimestampField?: string; pull?: FirestoreSyncPullOptions; push?: FirestoreSyncPushOptions; }; `

[pubkey]

Hi @FathiGuemri
Your proposal looks good, PR is welcomed.

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