Angularfire and NodeJS firebase chat application by using topics

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I'm a newbie on the firebase. I'm trying to make a chat application with multiple users and multiple rooms by using AngularJS (angularfire) for the frontend and NodeJS for the backend. I want to send many-to-many notifications. I'll use topics for this.

Here are the steps I followed:

1. Register user to firebase (backend-NodeJS)
2. Save user UID to the database (MongoDB)
3. Subscribe this user to the topics (backend-NodeJS)
4. Receive notifications from the topics which user has subscribed (frontend-Angular)

I can listen notifications by using AngularFireMessaging module (requesting permission and listening) by using these methods in my app.component.ts:

@Component({
        selector: 'app-root',
        templateUrl: './app.component.html',
        styleUrls: ['./app.component.scss'],
    })
    export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
        constructor( private afMessaging: AngularFireMessaging ) { }
    
        ngOnInit(): void {
            this.requestPermission();
            this.listen();
        }
    
        requestPermission() {
            this.afMessaging.requestPermission
                .pipe(mergeMapTo(this.afMessaging.tokenChanges))
                .subscribe(
                    (token) => { console.log('Permission granted! Save to the server!', token); },
                    (error) => { console.error(error); },
                );
        }
    
        listen() {
            console.log('messages are being listened');
            this.afMessaging.messages
                .subscribe((message) => {
                    console.log("messages from firebase");
                    console.log(message);
                });
        }
    }

But as I understand this just registers the token and listens it.

I know I can use realtime databases of firebase. But the app is already prepared and we're storing users' UIds in the database. Also chat rooms and users' relations are also stored in the database.

I thought I can send notifications to the topics named as roomIds. Then I can listen these topics.

But how can I listen these topics? I have topic's names, I have also users' UIds. How can I listen these topics?

Or am I missing something?

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