Firebase as Message Broker

[Edgar Lopez]

I'm wondering if I could user Firebase as Message Broker, any idea?

[Kato Richardson]

This is an incredibly broad question, but the simple answer is Message "Brokering"--to coin my own verb here--is an underlying, fundamental principle of Firebase. You push a value into one end and it distributes to many users at the other end.

You can apply this by listening to a single object/record, and changing its contents whenever there is new information, or you can push records to a path, and monitor them like a queue or message list. Concepts like these are core to the starter guides.

Cheers,

Kato

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Edgar Lopez <elope...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm wondering if I could user Firebase as Message Broker, any idea?

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[David Robbins]

Edgar I've been experimenting with this concept between nodejs and an ASP.Net application.  Node is my message processor for firing SMS and emails with Twillio and SendGrid, while my web app sits on .Net.  From what I have done this works really well:  .Net fires off a message to Firebase, my node server is listening to the same queue, sends the SMS / Email request to the appropriate party, then records the success or failure.  So far it has worked really well.