Firestore is a powerful NoSQL database from Firebase that provides real-time data synchronization and scalability.
Best practices include understanding Firestore's query model, indexing for efficient queries, optimizing query performance, leveraging real-time updates, and using aggregations and batching.
Queries should be carefully structured, necessary indexes should be created, pagination should be implemented with query cursors, and expensive queries should be minimized through data modeling and incremental queries.
Real-time updates can be optimized by using listeners on specific documents and fetching relevant data with where and orderBy clauses.