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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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Avoid nesting data

In Firebase Realtime Database, when you fetch the data from the JSON tree, we will also get all the child nodes of that specific node, because when we add the data into the JSON tree, it becomes the node in the existing JSON structure with an associated key. Firebase Realtime Database allows nesting data up to 32 levels deep, so when we give the access to someone to read or write access at a specific node, then we are also giving access of all the child nodes of under that node. Therefore, always the best practice is to keep our data structure as flat as possible.

Let me show you why nested data is bad; refer to the following example:

{ // a poorly nested data architecture, because // iterating over "products" to get a ...
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