react-redux-firebase vs redux-react-firebase

[moroshko]

@prescottprue I see that you are one of the contributors to redux-react-firebase.

Could you provide some insights to the differences between react-redux-firebase and redux-react-firebase? They look very similar, and this is very confusing 😕

[prescottprue]

@moroshko They were originally actually the same library, but redux-react-firebase was left unattended for a few months when there were crucial Pull Requests. Now it differs by including features that were requested by a few of us that needed access to Firebase's once and utilities like population and deboucing.

Main differences now:

• population functionality similar to mongodb's
• access to firebase's storage
• uniqueSet method helper for only setting if location doesn't already exist

Well why not combine?

I am in the process of writing up an article comparing the two, including the difference in defaults/utils. Maybe a section should be included in the docs as well?

Also, I have been talking to the author of redux-react-firebase about combining, but we are not sure that the users of both want that at this point. Join us on the redux-firebase gitter if you haven't already since a ton of this type of discussion goes on there.

[prescottprue]

@moroshko I added an FAQ section as part of the v1.0.2 release that explains this. Hope it helps others that are wondering the same thing.

[moroshko]

@prescottprue Thanks a lot for clarifying this!