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Ionic Cookbook

You're reading from   Ionic Cookbook Over 35 exciting recipes to spice up your application development with Ionic

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287978
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hoc Phan Hoc Phan
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Our First App with Ionic FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing States and Navigation 3. Adding Device Features Support 4. Offline Data Storage 5. Handling Gestures and Events 6. App Theme Customization 7. Extending Ionic with Your Own Components 8. User Registration and Authentication 9. Saving and Loading Data Using Firebase 10. Finalizing Your Apps for Different Platforms Index

Saving array data to Firebase


Sending and saving data to the Firebase backend server is as simple as calling the $add() function. Firebase automatically handles all the REST operations so that you don't have to call via the $http services or create your own. From a frontend developer's perspective, you can treat your data as a typical JavaScript object.

In this recipe, you will learn how to make connections to Firebase by creating a reference object and adding data into the object in the array format. Firebase treats an array like an object. The only difference is that each array's item will have an integer key. Here's an example:

// When we send this
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
// Firebase stores this
{0: 'a', 1: 'b', 2: 'c', 3: 'd', 4: 'e'}

Getting ready

You should log in to your Firebase dashboard ahead of time and navigate to the Data tab. The code will create a node called items to store data. You need to make sure that there is no existing items node, in case you created one before.

How to...

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