For questions involving the Polymer library's interface with the Firebase API — typically via the firebase-collection or firebase-document Polymer elements. Many Polymer apps use Firebase as both a static hosting solution as well as a backend (no-SQL) data store.
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Is it better to send two requests or one when indexing a Firebase?
My Firebase looks like this:
- widgets
- abc123abc
- key1: val1
- key2: val2
- key3: val3
- ...
+ abc123abd
+ ...
- widgets-index
- abc123abc
- timestamp: 1289183274834
- abc123abd
- timestamp: 1289183274834
I am…

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Getting Polymerfire (firebase-document) to callback error event?
How do I get firebase-document to callback an error event after a request fails? (Or at least a notification the request has completed so I can imperatively check the response to see if I received the expected data?)
For example, if I enter an…

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Why isn't my Polymer app working on Firebase?
This is my first post here and I have to say, Stack Overflow is such an amazing community for devs. I have visited many times over the years and would like to say a big thank you to everyone for joining together and sharing your knowledge!
So... I…

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Using firebase-query with Polymerfire?
Before anyone makes a comment about me not trying to figure things out on my own.
I have read through those firebase docs (https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/js/firebase.database.Query) about 3 times today. I also read through the source…

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dom-repeat not updating when path from firebase-query changes
I'm using the firebase-query element which is working at first attempt in setting the path.
I then…

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Polymerfire - What is the correct way to update firebase values
what is the correct way to update a firebase value? is it to use firebase-document? I understand that in polymerfire, has been deprecated. However, in https://github.com/PolymerLabs/todo-list, I could simply update the collection like…

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Calling functions within Polymer element
I'm struggling to call functions inside my polymer element. I know that you need to use this.functionName();, and it works.
but when I was it in a setTimeout like this: runSoon = setTimeout(this.runNow(), 12000); it runs without waiting.
If I write…

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Polymer 1.x: $key throws error when saving to Firebase
I want to save a firebase-document to Firebase. But I encounter the following error.
error.log
Uncaught (in promise) Error: Firebase.push failed: first argument contains an invalid key ($key) in property 'xxxxxxxxxxxx.items'. Keys must be…

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Syncing a paper-input with firebase using polymer
How is this for a solution for syning the data from a paper input to a firebase database.
properties: {
teamid: {
type: String,
value: null
},
formid: {
type:…

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Polymerfire - creating data after an event
I'm using the firebase/polymerfire package from bower bower install firebase/polymerfire
how can i create some data in the database after a method has been triggered?
The document tag looks like it will display and update data. I would like to,…

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How to install Polymerfire with all dependencies?
I am trying to install and use the Polymerfire element. But, apparently, I have not successfully installed all the dependencies like firebase-sdk, for example.
I tried using Bower command pattern used to install the other Polymer…

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How to create or signup user for the first time in firebase
I am using firebase-auth and firebase-document elements in Polymer. I am signed in with "google" as provider. My firebase database is like below:
firebase-app-id-location
[-]users
[-]user1.uid
[-]user2.uid
So i am planning to create new…

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Polygit doesn't import elements when deployed to firebase
I watched the Polymer Submit which inspired me to build a Web App with Polymer and firebase and to import elements I wanted to use Polygit, so I "wrote" a little code.
When I open the index.html file in directly in my browser, it all worked well,…

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How to get max performance getting data using the firebase-element?
When using the firebase-element, what is considered the most effective method?
New firebase-element for each location.
Using a for loop.
New firebase-element for each location
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How to loop through nested Firebase keys in Polymer
So, I have a Polymer project that is saving to Firebase. My data looks like this:
What I'm trying to do is loop through the teams property in the data. Considering Polymer only loops through Arrays right now, this is proving to be pretty…

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