Is there way I can stop my number type field value to go negative (minimum 0) when using Firstore Fieldvalue increment and not using transactions?
this.afs.doc('path').update({count: firebase.firestore.FieldValue.increment(11)});
If the field count has value 0, it will go to -1.
A transaction is actually the right way to go here, since you can check the bounds of the value. FieldValue.increment() can't do that.
However, if you want to update to simply fail when provided with invalid values, you can use Firestore security rules to validate the field value. These rules only work when directly accessed by web and mobile clients. They don't apply to backend code.