Vue.js 1 & 2 binding for Firebase 2 & 3
- If included as global
<script>: will install automatically if globalVueis present.
<head>
<!-- Vue -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/vue/1.0.24/vue.js"></script>
<!-- Firebase -->
<script src="https://gstatic.com/firebasejs/3.0.3/firebase.js"></script>
<!-- VueFire -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/vuefire/1.1.0/vuefire.min.js"></script>
</head>- In module environments, e.g CommonJS:
npm install vue firebase vuefire --savevar Vue = require('vue')
var VueFire = require('vuefire')
var Firebase = require('firebase')
// explicit installation required in module environments
Vue.use(VueFire)var firebaseApp = firebase.initializeApp({ ... })
var db = firebaseApp.database()
var vm = new Vue({
el: '#demo',
firebase: {
// simple syntax, bind as an array by default
anArray: db.ref('url/to/my/collection'),
// can also bind to a query
// anArray: db.ref('url/to/my/collection').limitToLast(25)
// full syntax
anObject: {
source: db.ref('url/to/my/object'),
// optionally bind as an object
asObject: true,
// optionally provide the cancelCallback
cancelCallback: function () {}
}
}
})<div id="demo">
<pre>{{ anObject | json }}</pre>
<ul>
<li v-for="item in anArray">{{ item.text }}</li>
</ul>
</div>The above will bind the Vue instance's anObject and anArray to the respective Firebase data sources. In addition, the instance also gets the $firebaseRefs property, which holds the refs for each binding:
// add an item to the array
vm.$firebaseRefs.anArray.push({
text: 'hello'
})Alternatively, you can also manually bind to a Firebase ref with the $bindAsObject or $bindAsArray instance methods:
vm.$bindAsObject('user', myFirebaseRef.child('user'))
vm.$bindAsArray('items', myFirebaseRef.child('items').limitToLast(25))To save user-input to your Firebase database, simply push the data onto this.$firebaseRefs.items (instead of this.items) within a Vue method to automatically sync with Firebase.
For example, in your template you could add something simple like
<input v-model="item" placeholder="Add an item"/>
<button @click="addItem">Add item</button>And within your Vue component
export default {
data () {
return {
item: ''
}
},
firebase: {
items: db.ref('items')
},
methods: {
addItem () {
this.$firebaseRefs.items.push({
name: this.item
})
}
}
}Each record in the bound array will contain a .key property which specifies the key where the record is stored. So if you have data at /items/-Jtjl482BaXBCI7brMT8/, the record for that data will have a .key of "-Jtjl482BaXBCI7brMT8".
If an individual record's value in the database is a primitive (boolean, string, or number), the value will be stored in the .value property. If the individual record's value is an object, each of the object's properties will be stored as properties of the bound record. As an example, let's assume the /items/ node you bind to contains the following data:
{
"items": {
"-Jtjl482BaXBCI7brMT8": 100,
"-Jtjl6tmqjNeAnQvyD4l": {
"first": "fred",
"last": "Flintstone"
},
"-JtjlAXoQ3VAoNiJcka9": "foo"
}
}The resulting bound array stored in vm.items will be:
[
{
".key": "-Jtjl482BaXBCI7brMT8",
".value": 100
},
{
".key": "-Jtjl6tmqjNeAnQvyD4l",
"first": "Fred",
"last": "Flintstone"
},
{
".key": "-JtjlAXoQ3VAoNiJcka9",
".value": "foo"
}
]Clone the repo, then:
$ npm install # install dependencies
$ npm test # run test suite with coverage report
$ npm run dev # watch and build dist/vuefire.js
$ npm run build # build dist/vuefire.js and vuefire.min.js