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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase
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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

by Mayur Tanna, Harmeet Singh
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Enabling offline capabilities in JavaScript

When we create Realtime Application with Firebase, we also need to monitor the connection when clients connect and disconnect with database.  Firebase provides a simple solution, which you can use to write to the database when a client disconnects from the Firebase Database servers. We can perform all operations such as writing, setting, updating, and removing can be performed upon a disconnection.

Refer to this example onDiscconnect() method of Firebase:

var presenceRef = firebase.database().ref("disconnectmessage");// Write the string when client loses connectionpresenceRef.onDisconnect().set("I disconnected!");

We can also attach the callback function to ensure that the onDisconnect() method ...

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