Firechat: an open-source chat module, built with Firebase

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51 points·jamest··11 comments

I wish I didn't have to log in with Twitter to try it out. It is a lot of fun to see some of these cool things built with Firebase though. That Refrigerator Magnet game a while back was some of the most time-wasting fun I had found on this site.

Link?

http://magnets.firebase.com/

I played around with firebase and AngularJS over the weekend. Had a lot of fun, firebase was really easy to use (once I understand how the data was structured).

I open sourced the code as well: https://github.com/hswolff/bringthesalsa . Direct link to the app here: http://bringthesalsa.hswolff.com/#/ . Blog post here: http://harrywolff.com/weekend-project-bring-the-salsa/

So, please help me understand what is cool about this. Isn't this similar to the Socket.io demos?

It's similar to all the other "chat demos" that every programmer writes.

It's a little step up from learning how to program "Hello world".

So no, there's nothing remotely cool about this.

Except I suppose that if you scale rapidly, that Firebase would be able to handle the load.

Sure, but it's neat because it uses Firebase's BaaS and apparently no other backend code.

I built this using Firebase + AngularJs: http://vocowl.com

This is really cool!

MIT license for the win!

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