This was something that really prevented me from pursuing Firebase as a real asset, despite its easy real time socket magic. If there's a diagram to "roll your

This was something that really prevented me from pursuing Firebase as a real asset, despite its easy real time socket magic. If there's a diagram to "roll your own" after, though, it's probably moot (forums/ chat). Their json-rpc server has a really slick api and they've spent a lot of time on problems such as authentication and data security. You could argue that moot is just a very well designed Firebase app as far as security permissions go, but at least it's proof that it's possible to rely entirely on pub/sub for your app and be fast, scalable, and successful.