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Example of building a basic "index" in Firebase.
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var users = firebase.child('users'); | |
var usersByEmailIndex = firebase.child('indexes/users/email'); | |
var createUser = function(username, emails) { | |
var newUserRef = users.push({ | |
username: username, | |
emails: emails | |
}); | |
var userId = newUserRef.name(); | |
emails.forEach(function(email) { | |
usersByEmailIndex.child(firebaseCodec.encode(email)).set(userId); | |
}); | |
return userId; | |
}; | |
var getUserByEmail = function(email, callback) { | |
usersByEmailIndex.child(firebaseCodec.encode(email)).once('value', function(snapshot) { | |
var userId = snapshot.val(); | |
users.child(userId).once('value', function(snapshot) { | |
callback(snapshot.val()); | |
}); | |
}); | |
}; | |
createUser('Erik Beeson', ['erik1@example.com', 'erik2@example.com']); | |
getUserByEmail('erik2@example.com', function(user) { | |
console.log(user); // {username: 'Erik Beeson', emails: ['erik1@example.com', 'erik2@example.com']} | |
}); |
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