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[Firebase founder here] This is pretty exciting for us, we're glad kogir, dang, kevin and sctb chose to expose HN's data through Firebase. We're seen quite a fe
by jamest 12y ago
[Firebase founder here] This is pretty exciting for us, we're glad kogir, dang, kevin and sctb chose to expose HN's data through Firebase. We're seen quite a few startups (and big companies like Nest) do this, since building, maintaining, and documenting a public API often isn't a easy task.
- nacs 12y agoHow does this API work with Firebase? Is HN data already in Firebase (as its primary data store) or is content from HN's DB getting 'mirrored/cloned' on-demand to Firebase for the API?