firebase-resource

It would be good to get Firebase's Angular bindings to work decently well for top-level objects and improve their promise support. I recently worked on http://worldmap.io as a way to test a bunch of angular-related tech and the firebase bindings, while dead easy to start, were a pain as I couldn't resolve them in the routeProvider. Instead I had to do it inside the controller, which forced me to keep a bunch of boilerplate. See https://github.com/alexandrosm/worldmap/blob/master/app/scri... Still, a great project and concept, just has some more way to go before I'd use it in a real project. I do want to check out https://github.com/marknutter/firebase-resource though, made by a fellow HNer and mentioned last time around.

I've been using Firebase in an Angular app I've been developing for the past couple of months, but instead of using AngularFire I rolled my own wrapper for a few reasons: 1. I didn't like how Firebase is explicitly injected into and referred to in the controllers. I don't want my controllers to be so tightly coupled to Firebase. 2. There was no support for associations. If you want to have object associations, which most non-trivial apps require, you need to manage all that complexity in your controllers using AngularFire. I wanted a solution that handled it implicitly, ala ActiveRecord. 3. I wanted additional features handled for me by the wrapper like timestamps, save/create/delete/init callbacks, collecting resources into stores to be used across controllers, etc. 4. AngularFire leans pretty heavily on Firebase as the place data is sto