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@firebase/database-compat
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This is the compatibility layer for the Firebase Realtime Database component of the Firebase JS SDK.
This package is not intended for direct usage, and should only be used via the officially supported firebase package.
This is the modern version of Firebase Realtime Database package. It offers similar functionalities but with a more modular and tree-shakable approach compared to @firebase/database-compat, which is designed for backward compatibility with older Firebase versions.
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The Realtime Database component of the Firebase JS SDK.
The npm package @firebase/database-compat receives a total of 3,963,695 weekly downloads. As such, @firebase/database-compat popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @firebase/database-compat demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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