VueFire
Vue.js binding for Firebase.
Installation
- If included as global
<script>
: will install automatically if global Vue
is present.
<head>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/vue/1.0.24/vue.js"></script>
<script src="https://gstatic.com/firebasejs/3.0.3/firebase.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/vuefire/1.1.0/vuefire.min.js"></script>
</head>
- In module environments, e.g CommonJS:
npm install vue firebase vuefire --save
var Vue = require('vue')
var VueFire = require('vuefire')
var Firebase = require('firebase')
Vue.use(VueFire)
Usage
var firebaseApp = firebase.initializeApp({ ... })
var db = firebaseApp.database()
var vm = new Vue({
el: '#demo',
firebase: {
anArray: db.ref('url/to/my/collection'),
anObject: {
source: db.ref('url/to/my/object'),
asObject: true,
cancelCallback: function () {}
}
}
})
<div id="demo">
<pre>{{ anObject | json }}</pre>
<ul>
<li v-for="item in anArray">{{ item.text }}</li>
</ul>
</div>
The above will bind the Vue instance's anObject
and anArray
to the respective Firebase data sources. In addition, the instance also gets the $firebaseRefs
property, which holds the refs for each binding:
vm.$firebaseRefs.anArray.push({
text: 'hello'
})
Alternatively, you can also manually bind to a Firebase ref with the $bindAsObject
or $bindAsArray
instance methods:
vm.$bindAsObject('user', myFirebaseRef.child('user'))
vm.$bindAsArray('items', myFirebaseRef.child('items').limitToLast(25))
Data Normalization
Array Bindings
Each record in the bound array will contain a .key
property which specifies the key where the record is stored. So if you have data at /items/-Jtjl482BaXBCI7brMT8/
, the record for that data will have a .key
of "-Jtjl482BaXBCI7brMT8"
.
If an individual record's value in the database is a primitive (boolean, string, or number), the value will be stored in the .value
property. If the individual record's value is an object, each of the object's properties will be stored as properties of the bound record. As an example, let's assume the /items/
node you bind to contains the following data:
{
"items": {
"-Jtjl482BaXBCI7brMT8": 100,
"-Jtjl6tmqjNeAnQvyD4l": {
"first": "fred",
"last": "Flintstone"
},
"-JtjlAXoQ3VAoNiJcka9": "foo"
}
}
The resulting bound array stored in vm.items
will be:
[
{
".key": "-Jtjl482BaXBCI7brMT8",
".value": 100
},
{
".key": "-Jtjl6tmqjNeAnQvyD4l",
"first": "Fred",
"last": "Flintstone"
},
{
".key": "-JtjlAXoQ3VAoNiJcka9",
".value": "foo"
}
]
Contributing
Clone the repo, then:
$ npm install
$ npm test
$ npm run dev
$ npm run build
License
MIT