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Couldn't agree more, I have run into the same things it appears you have and come to similar conclusions. That was what was hardest for me when getting started, there are a billion examples of how to write a chat app, a todo list, etc but none of the examples I came across had, as you call it the "meat of how to build and Angular app with Firebase". I felt like most of what I was seeing was gimmicky and had no real use (on it's own).

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Yup. I'm also trying to learn AngularJS at the same time so the hits, they keep'a'coming. ( =

It would be nice in the AngularFire documentation if they were clear what was a promise (implicit binding) and what wasn't (explicit binding).

One of the things I ran into (which I hope they add to the documentation): before using implicit binding, create the object on the $scope in your controller first. Only after the empty object is on the scope should you call "angularFire(ref, $scope, 'thing');". The error that shows up if you don't do that is rather cryptic.

Yes, I too ran into this problem and found the answer in the github issue tracker[0]. I ran into other issues in the 0.2.0->0.3.0 change where they made quite a few small changes without releasing any upgrade instructions or changelog.

[0] https://github.com/firebase/angularFire/issues/105

Thanks for the feedback (Firebase Community Manager here). We're working on improving the documentation. Feel free to email me at sara@firebase.com if you have more suggestions.

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