I had a question about building a website. The website is for looking at house floor plans and being able to search a database for specific floor plans. (i.e. 3 bedroom 2 baths). I want to use firebase as my DB. To make this possible would I have to use Node or would I be able to just use React to make calls to the database. Thanks for the help in advance!
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The question is if you can use the Firebase API/SDK to make all your queries on the client side. If not this is a sign that you need an extra layer in a form of a server. – floriangosse Feb 21 '17 at 20:22
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Thanks for the response. It seems that Firebase can do most of what I would want. – Daniel Rodenberg Feb 21 '17 at 20:40
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Then you don't need it. If you are doing heavy calculations on the client side you could consider using a server to reduce the load on the client side. – floriangosse Feb 21 '17 at 20:42
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React is not a database library/framework and therefor has no support for doing these calls. I would go by backing your app (which may also be a public web app) by some kind of server.
You could use a lightweight express server that exposes your API and call it
with something like axios, window.fetch or so from the client.
You might want to look into this related question.
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