firebase - Justin Noel

Firebase Features Wishlist

Firebase is amazing, but these suggestions and feature requests could make it even better.

Learning "Eloquent JavaScript"

I've been "developing" in JavaScript for nearly 10 years. To be honest, I've mainly been using libraries and frameworks like jQuery, prototype(gasp!), mooTools, Ext JS, and AngularJS. There's been a lot of criticism of frameworks recently. Some feel that frameworks are

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API Versioning Trick for Firebase

Many people make the mistake of thinking that Firebase is simply a way to sync data between devices. Without digging any deeper, you might think it's a bit of a one-trick pony. Anyone that's ever seen a demonstration of Firebase, will know that Firebase

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Firebase Security Rules Proposal : Restricted IP Addresses

If you're using backend processors with Firebase, you probably know not to be authenticating the server with your Firebase secret. Instead you should be using custom tokens. Many people, ahem, use custom tokens with an "admin" : true flag in the payload. With

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Retrieving Firebase User Accounts Without Forge

UPDATE : I decided to make a sample using jq to pretty print the output files. That script is at the bottom of this post. I also added an automatic date/timestamp to the output files. With the recent migration of Kids In Touch to

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Ensuring Unique Mobile Numbers with Firebase

SUBTITLE : Without getting Snapchatted. Credits: This workflow is based on a Stackoverflow answer from Kato. Quite often, an online service's signup process requires the user to enter their mobile number. They need to make sure the user owns the number and will usually verify

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Firebase Validation Rules Proposal

A while back, I wrote about problems with performing validation with Firebase. In an email exchange with Firebase, the representative indicated that providing more information was a security risk. I can see some logic in that, but I don't really agree with it. Firebase

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Looking for Work

Hello! Thanks for visiting my site. As you know, I'm the developer of Kids In Touch. While working on improving the app and becoming the next breakout texting app ;-), I need a job. I'm looking for short or long term gigs developing mobile

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Use $loaded With Firebase and AngularFire

A few times now, I've run into issues with my app while using Firebase / AngularFire. The documentation in the guide, shows samples like this: var sync = $firebase(ref); // create a synchronized object, all server changes are downloaded in realtime var profileObject = sync.$asObject(); With

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Firebase Rate Limiting Proposal

I was digging around trying to find some means to do rate limiting on Firebase references. I found this answer on StackOverflow that describes a method to do it. At first blush, I assumed this only works for a client that respects the rules

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Firebase Local Storage Client Feature

I've been rewriting the Kids In Touch app to use Firebase as my backend. As I've plodded along, I've come across a few ideas that I think would make good features to add to Firebase. Today, I made a feature request to Firebase for

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Combining Firebase Rules for My Sanity

I've been working on replacing the Kids In Touch API with Firebase. I've struggled a bit with the rules system. It's pretty complicated putting the rules for an entire API in a single, understandable file. To help with this, Firebase has released their new

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User Authentication with Ionic and Firebase

I'm rewriting Kids In Touch right now with Firebase as the backend. I'm really pleased with how things are going. Developing with Firebase is so much easier than dealing with my old REST API. Today, I was dealing with logging users into the app.

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Firebase Validation hasChildren() Pro Tip

So, I'm chugging along with testing data validation in Firebase. Everything was going okay with my tests. I could block invalid data and accept valid data. tl;dr : If you use .hasChildren() validation, you must include a validation rule for every property you are

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Firebase Data Validation

Yesterday, I explained how I chose to start testing Firebase for taking over the Kids In Touch API. I mentioned that all was not roses. I'll go over one of my biggest issues with the service here. Rules Based API With Firebase, you don't

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Comparing Firebase to PubNub

I've been testing Firebase lately and considering using it to replace my own backend for Kids In Touch. I'm liking Firebase very much. The two way syncing is so fast and smooth. The "three-way binding" with Angular is really nice too. Very