FirebaseDatabase

A small demo focused on demonstrating how to push and retrieve a list of data from Firebase. Firebase is a backend solution managed by the folks at Google. This is written in Swift.

Server.swift

The Server.swift file contains a barebones Server enum:

enum Server {}

In the spirit of modular code, everything that communicates with the Firebase backend will be in the namespace of the Server enum.

Server+Database.swift

The Server+Database.swift file manages the communication between the app and Firebase for pushing/fetching of data. This is an extension of the Server enum, with the sole responsibility of handling networking.

FirebaseConvertible

Model objects for this app conform to a custom protocol, the FirebaseConvertible protocol:

protocol FirebaseConvertible {
  var json: [String: Any]
  init(dictionary: [String: Any] 
}

Since Firebase is JSON store, pushing/fetching of data always occurs in JSON format. FirebaseConvertible helps provide a standard for all model objects you want to create.