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I'm curious if anyone could point me to a really simple application that shows how to use AngularJS and Firebase together?

I'm thinking it makes sense to do my next project in those technologies since that way I can avoid setting up a hosting platform entirely and not even pay for hosting? Does that seem like a good idea? (It's going to be a way people can pay bitcoins to other people to read books)

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I actually do exactly this for a site I'm building. I use Firebase and Angular together and I host the site for next to nothing using Amazon's S3 static hosting option (costs me like $2 a month). I wrote a more robust angular firebase module than angular-fire, the one the Firebase guys wrote, and I also created a tiny framework/script-runner similar to Yeoman that automates a bunch of stuff including deploying to S3.

I'll message you when I make it all publicly available.

Yes, let me know when it's available.

I thought you could host your HTML file on firebase too? Why do you need S3?

Firebase only stores data at the moment, to store the static assets, you'll still need a service like S3, Github Pages, Site44, or Harp.IO.

Would love to see your angular-firebase module (if you're willing to share it) - it would be great to integrate some of it back into the original module!

Here is one that was posted to HN a little while ago:

Website: http://firereader.io/app/#/demo

HN Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053901

There is this, if you haven't already seen it: https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-03-29-firebase-bindings-f....

That's perfect thanks! But I feel dumb asking this, where is the source code for their todo demo app?

I want to get a feel for what a simple app looks like.

It's up at https://github.com/firebase/angularFire/tree/gh-pages/exampl...

Here's an hour long video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ZI7z7qnHU

firebase has bindings for angular:

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-03-29-firebase-bindings-f...

and

https://github.com/firebase/angularFire

which make it relatively simple to wire up your angular model to firebase.

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