Boots every emulator defined in the emulators block of firebase.json — commonly Firestore, Auth, Functions, and Hosting — so your app runs entirely on localhost. An emulator is a local simulation of the real service, so no production data is touched. Stop them with Ctrl+C; capture state first with firebase emulators:export.
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