I am making a messaging app using Firebase and Cloud Firestore. I have a collection called "messages" that contains documents for each message. My main goal is to listen to that collection for new documents and load them without reloading all the documents in the collection.
EDIT: In a nutshell, I want the client to load messages saved by other clients.
That depends on what defines when a document is "new" for you.
If "new" means "created after now()", then you need to have a created timestamp in your document and query to start at now(). That's pretty similar to what David explained here for the Firebase Realtime Database: How to only get new data without existing data from a Firebase?
If "new" means "documents this user hasn't loaded before", you will need to track the latest document they've seen, and start a query at that document. Kato explained a similar model for the Firebase Realtime here: Firebase child_added without loading all data first
