Activefire NPM

ActiveFire

Rails's ActiveRecord-inspired model for Firebase. Still in (very slow) development.

Status

I've rewritten this project in TypeScript and it already worked with Firebase 3. Now I have 1 production server running with it but I need time to collect some more thoughts on this. So...

Don't Use This Library.

In the meantime, if you want to collaborate on this idea please let me know. I'm always available at deoxen0n2@gmail.com. Thanks you.

Usage

$ npm install activefire

And in your js file:

var ActiveFire = require('activefire');

// Setup config once.
ActiveFire.configure({
  url: 'https://[app].firebaseio.com/'
});

// Authenticate.
ActiveFire.authWithPassword({
  email: 'deoxen0n2@gmail.com',
  password: 'secretpassword'
}, _doTheRest);

// Do the rest.
function _doTheRest(err, userData) {
  if (err) throw err;

  // Declare your models.
  // For simplicity, assume book has only one author.
  var Book = new ActiveFire.Base('/books');
  var Author = new ActiveFire.Base('/authors', {
    hasMany: { books: { model: Book, key: 'author_id' } }
  });

  // Create them.
  Author.create({
    fullName: 'Sean Covey'
  })
  .then(function(sean) {
    return sean.books.create({
      title: 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens',
      isbn: '978-1476764665'
    });
  }, function(err) {
    console.log('Ooch.. something went wrong:', err);
  })
  .then(function() {
    console.log('Your book is cool!');
  }, function(err) {
    console.log('Ooch.. your book is still cool, but something went wrong:', err);
  });
}

Development

Right now I'm working on improving and finishing v1 of this library. The rewrite version leverages the multi-path update feature so it can guarantee atomic operations for some tasks and it does not use external Promise library anymore (since Firebase already support this interface on v2.4+ SDK). It also benefits from strong type system from TypeScript. The goals of this project will be: