BackFire: Firebase bindings for Backbone.js

The bindings simply extend the Collection object and override certain methods on it (add, remove, etc.) to do the corresponding Firebase operations.

We did run into a few relatively minor issues; for example when doing a smart update to a collection, Backbone seems to trigger a remove event immediately followed by an add event for a model that hasn't changed.

We still have more work to do with the bindings (we don't have a Firebase.Model object for instance), but I don't expect any major roadblocks. All in all, piece of cake!

Thanks, AngularJS is definitely on our roadmap!

Great question - the bindings can take a regular Firebase reference object instead of a URL as well. If you had authenticated the Firebase reference using any of the regular Firebase methods (like Simple Login), the collection will simply inherit them.