Droopy Firebase

Wrapper around the Firebase SDK to make working with collections simpler.

Install

npm install --save droopy-firebase

Usage

Get your Firebase App's config from the Firebase Console. Then connect to the db with droopy-firebase.

var config = { "..." : "...config from firebase portal..." }
var db = require("droopy-firebase").connect(config);

// Add an item to the collection. You MUST specify a 'key'
await db.movies.add({ key: 123, title: "Gladiator" })

// Update an item
await db.movies.update(123, { rating: 8.2 });

// Get the item by key 
let movie = await db.movies.get(123)
console.log(movie);

// Get all items in a collection
let allMovies = await db.movies.getItems()
console.log(movies);

let actors = await db.actors.getItems();
console.log(actors):

Firebase Setup

1. Go to your Firebase Console
2. Create a new App
3. Click Database and setup a Realtime DB instance
   • droopy-firebase doesn't do anything with Auth. You can:
     • Handle auth yourself using firebase.auth()
     • Configure you Realtime DB to run in "Test Mode" (anonymously accessible)
4. Go to your Project Settings, click Add Firebase to your Web App, and copy out your App's config

Dynamic Collections

Even if a collection doesn't exist, you can still reference it on your db object (thanks to a javascript proxy)

// Create a movies collection if it doesn't exist, then add an item to it
await db.movies.add({ key: 123, title: "Gladiator" })

Get all items in a collection

Let's say we had a collecton of blog posts in the db

let posts = await db.posts.getItems();

Get Item by key

let movie = await db.movies.get(123)

Update Item

Use update if the item exists already an you just want to change a couple property or add a new property

await db.movies.add({ key: 567, title: "A Lot Like Love" })
await db.movies.update(567, { rating: 7.3 })

Remove Item

db.movies.remove(123);

Realtime Events

Event types are add, update, remove.

Subscribe to movies collection changes

db.movies.on("add", (newMovie) => {
    console.log(newMovie);
})

db.movies.on("update", (updatedMovie) => {
    console.log(updatedMovie);
})

db.movies.on("remove", (deletedMovie) => {
    console.log(deletedMovie);
})

Empty/remove a collection

Get rid of all items in the posts collection

db.posts.clear();