firebase

Side question: does anyone have any real experience with integrating Firebase with React a la ReactFire?

I've tried Angular and Firebase for a few small protoypes, it's incredibly fast to create something to present.

For someone who doesn't understand this that well, is this similar to firebase?

The websocket API is the main selling point of Firebase, but I guess you were not actively looking to use Firebase in a product, rather, it was a necessity from HN API.

I did the design of a project that used Angular inside Ionic with Firebase as backend.

I tried Firebase + Angular and liked it well enough, but I found the security rules kind of hard to grasp.

The only downside is that you're locked into using firebase as a service, can't host it locally, and you're limited to what their API supports.

But Firebase is a database, and by definition keeps state.

I was working on this and downloaded all the items using firebase API.

I'd dig a Postgres as a service style firebase alternative that'd be nifty.

Is there any service like Firebase but with joins?

The only major problem was with Firebase itself, when we had to start duplicating data because it's a tree and it doesn't have joins.

I believe Hacker News API (which is in Firebase) is what is meant by "Firebase".

Name and email are for presentation - when a user loads a page, it's nice for the system to show them who they are - but user_id is what gets passed back to Firebase to do the lookup so in the case of Firebase the "query" is site.firebaseio.com/users/user_id - this will spit out whatever you have stored in /users/user_id be it chat history, email address, etc...

I haven't used Firebase, but would RethinkDB with its real-time feature be an alternative that has joins?

Anyone out there using Angular and Firebase?

> This is similar to solutions like Meteor, Parse, and Firebase.