Lunora Blog https://lunora.sh/blog News, insights, and engineering deep dives from the team building Lunora. en Firestore's typed values, and the export that isn't JSON https://lunora.sh/blog/firestore-typed-values-and-the-export-that-isnt-json https://lunora.sh/blog/firestore-typed-values-and-the-export-that-isnt-json Building the Firebase importer meant discovering that gcloud firestore export writes protobuf, not JSON — and that the format worth supporting was somewhere else entirely. Engineering Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Migrating off Convex, files and all https://lunora.sh/blog/migrate-convex-files-and-all https://lunora.sh/blog/migrate-convex-files-and-all lunora import now moves a Convex export's blobs, not just its documents — verified before write, references rewritten, and safe to re-run. Here's why ids surviving is the whole trick. Engineering Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Supabase to Lunora, without the reshape script https://lunora.sh/blog/supabase-to-lunora-without-a-reshape-script https://lunora.sh/blog/supabase-to-lunora-without-a-reshape-script lunora import --from supabase reads your CSV dumps directly. The interesting part is what it refuses to do: a conversion that would lose a digit fails the run instead of rounding. Engineering Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT we deleted the sync server https://lunora.sh/blog/we-deleted-the-sync-server https://lunora.sh/blog/we-deleted-the-sync-server local-first sync on Cloudflare Durable Objects, with no separate sync service to run. Engineering Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Build a real-time chat on Cloudflare in 5 minutes https://lunora.sh/blog/build-a-realtime-chat-on-cloudflare https://lunora.sh/blog/build-a-realtime-chat-on-cloudflare A short tutorial: build a typed, live-syncing chat app on Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects with Lunora. Schema, functions, a React client, two tabs that sync. Tutorials Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Introducing Lunora https://lunora.sh/blog/introducing-lunora https://lunora.sh/blog/introducing-lunora Lunora is a type-safe, real-time backend for Cloudflare: Convex-style DX, typed queries and reactive subscriptions, on your own Workers and Durable Objects. Open source, alpha. Announcements Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Realtime by default, not as an afterthought https://lunora.sh/blog/realtime-by-default https://lunora.sh/blog/realtime-by-default How Lunora turns every query into a live subscription, with optimistic updates and an offline queue baked in. Engineering Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lunora Studio: your backend, in the open https://lunora.sh/blog/lunora-studio-deep-dive https://lunora.sh/blog/lunora-studio-deep-dive A local admin UI for your schema, data, SQL, dashboards, time-travel, and workflows — running against your live edge database, with nothing to install. Updates Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT