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Firebase does work offline if your app loses network connectivity temporarily (details here: https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/guide/offline-capabilities...). All data written while offline is stored in memory and is synced to the Firebase servers when your client reconnects. We’re working on improving offline support when your app goes into the background, and we currently have a beta version of this available for our iOS (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/firebase-talk/dOocEtjQz4w/ss...) and Android (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/firebase-talk/gYlnLgQ-Yhk/It...) SDKs.

If you scroll down to the "Fireside Chats" section on the customers page (https://www.firebase.com/customers/) you can see some examples

[Firebase Dev Advocate] This is great, thank you for sharing!

[Firebase Dev Advocate] Glad you're enjoying Firebase! Attaching a listener to the "items" Firebase is disabled. This is because it would send every item from HN to your computer. You'll need to attach a listener to the individual item instead. The "permission denied" error is coming from the security rules on the HN Firebase (https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/quickstart.html). If you're trying to find out what the latest updates are, they're kept in the /updates node (https://github.com/HackerNews/API#changed-items-and-profiles).

If you use the Firebase SDKs the request is sent over a reused full duplex socket rather than creating new/individual connections.

We establish a websocket connection and fall back to long polling when appropriate. This SO question has more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12591011/firebase-with-mo...

There are currently no rate limits on the REST API.

[Firebase Dev Advocate] @angersock - the "about" value you're seeing on the Firebase Dashboard isn't broken, it's just a truncated preview. The HN team is using email for issues, so you can send them any feedback at api@ycombinator.com.

[Firebase Dev Advocate] @airlocksoftware - Yes, you should make separate requests for each story. You can attach a listener to the topstories node (https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/guide/retrieving-data.html...) and when that’s triggered, you can make a request for the data on each story. Using the Firebase SDK, each request will get made using the same connection. I'd recommend using our SDK instead of the REST API so you don't have to worry about managing your own connections and retries.

[Firebase Dev Advocate here] We don't currently have rate limits. I'd recommend using our SDKs, they handle connections more efficiently than dealing with the REST API. You can also run your own server process using our Node (https://www.npmjs.org/package/firebase) or Java libraries (https://www.firebase.com/docs/android/quickstart.html).

[Firebase Community Manager here] I'm interested in seeing Firelaunch when your friend open sources yet!

Thanks for the feedback (Firebase Community Manager here). We're working on improving the documentation. Feel free to email me at sara@firebase.com if you have more suggestions.

Thank you for your feedback (Firebase Community Manager here). We've heard from many people that AngularFire still isn't quite usable in complex Angular apps and we're working now on making some API tweaks and improving the documentation. Email me (sara@firebase.com) with specific feedback.

Hi Bert!

(Firebase Community Manager here). Great job on this! To get some feedback on your app, I recommend sharing it with our Firebase + Angular Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebase-angular

Thanks, Sara

This is awesome! If you'd like, you should share this with the Firebase + AngularJS Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebase-angular

-Sara (Firebase Community Manager)

Firebase has security rules for reading, writing and validating data. As I mentioned before, you can use the Node module to run your own servers.

Using Firebase (https://www.firebase.com/index.html) as your backend, you can write entire applications in JavaScript without any server code. It also provides a Node module if you want to run your own servers: https://www.firebase.com/docs/nodejs-quickstart.html

If you want to add a backend to your Angular app, check out AngularFire. Here's the quickstart guide and tutorial: http://angularfire.com/quickstart.html

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