AmpFire-Collection

A modified, CommonJS version of Firebase's BackboneFire for AmpersandJS Collections.

Installation

npm install ampfire-collection

If you want it automatically added to your project's package.json use:

npm install ampfire-collection --save

Info

• It supports the ampersand-rest-collection module.
• The ampersand-collection with the ampersand-collection-rest-mixin can be used if the lodash functions aren't needed.

Basic Usage

First you should require the module as well as the ampersand-model module for creating our collection's model instances.

var AmpfireCollection = require('ampfire-collection');
var Model = require('ampersand-model');

Then you can create an ampersand-model to pass to your collection

var ExampleModel = Model.extend({
    props: {
      date: 'string',
      name: 'string',
      url: 'string',
      viewed: 'boolean',
      id: 'string'
    }
  });

Next simply extend the AmpfireCollection passing it our newly created ExampleModel and the firebase url

  var RealtimeCollection = AmpfireCollection.extend({
    url: 'https://example-db.firebaseio.com/todos',
    model: ExampleModel,
    autoSync: true // true by default
  });
 
  // Instantiate the collection
  var realtimeCollection = new RealtimeCollection();

  realtimeCollection.on('sync', function(collection) {
    console.log('collection loaded', collection);
  });

The rest of the API is the same as that of BackboneFire

Dependencies

• ampersand-rest-collection module
• lodash functions
  • extend: lodash.object
  • keys: lodash.object
  • has: lodash.object
  • isObject: lodash.lang
  • isFunction: lodash.lang
  • isArray: lodash.lang
  • clone: lodash.lang
  • bind: lodash.function
  • defer: lodash.function
  • each: lodash.collection
  • find: lodash.collection,
  • difference: lodash.array
  • union: lodash.array

Tests

Coming soon...

Demo

Coming soon...

Credits

This is all just a modification of the amazing work the Firebase team did on BackboneFire. It uses the awesome AmpersandJS Framework from the guys over at &yet.

Licence

MIT