nativescript-firebase

0.1.1 • Public • Published

nativescript-firebase

This is a Nativescript-compatible wrapper for the Firebase node.js SDK.

License

This module is licensed under the MIT license. Firebase and other modules have different licenses.

Installation

tns plugin add nativescript-firebase 

Usage

Exactly the same as Firebase for node.js:

var Firebase = require("nativescript-firebase");
 
var fb = new Firebase("some-app.firebaseio.com");

This module uses the actual Firebase node.js SDK (see package.json dependencies).

How it works

This module provides some dependencies required by the Firebase node.js SDK in the form of bundled modules. Versions 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 used a modified require function but I changed this because around version 1.5.0 of Nativescript it seems they replaced the global require with a parameter supplied to each module, meaning it couldn't be overwritten.

The bundled modules are mostly just wrappers around other modules, or internal Nativescript functionality. They are:

  • _stream_duplex (uses readable-stream)
  • _stream_readable (uses readable-stream)
  • _stream_writable (uses readable-stream)
  • emitter (uses tiny-emitter which is Nativescript compatible)
  • faye-websocket (uses nativescript-websockets - see below)
  • https (uses https-browserify which in turn uses Nativescript's XMLHttpRequest)
  • inherits (uses inherits-browser.js)

I've set the version number of the faye-websocket and inherits wrappers to 999.9.9 to override the modules in deeper dependencies.

The following modules are also used, and are Nativescript-compatible out of the box:

  • buffer
  • events
  • util (requires custom inherits)

The following global variables are also created to make the modified modules and Firebase work:

  • process with version, nextTick, platform and env
  • window with XMLHttpRequest
  • buffer using the buffer module

This is made possible by a modified version of NathanaelA's nativescript-websockets module, with a workaround for an SSL issue. This module is the substitute for the faye-websocket module required by Firebase.

Limitations and warnings

This module hasn't been rigorously tested. Here's what's working for me:

  • Logging in with a master key
  • Logging in with an OAuth token (requires the https module)
  • Retrieving some data with once() and on()
  • Setting data with push()

Most features should be working, but there might be more bugfixes to come. I'm using this in a project of mine so it'll get further tested as I use it more.

Note that this might have problems with Nativescript 1.5.1 due to this issue.

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npm i nativescript-firebase

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