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Looks interesting.

The idea seems to be that Firebase is all the server back-end you need. I can see how that could work for many applications.

On the other hand, as applications grow I can also see how you might arrive at a point where you do want to run code on a server. Is it possible to access a Firebase database from the server-end of things?

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Absolutely. Our Node.JS Library[1] and REST endpoints[2] are for exactly that. So you can still keep all the benefits of Firebase (real-time data synchronization between all clients of your app) while augmenting it with server-side code specific to your needs.

[1] https://www.firebase.com/docs/nodejs-quickstart.html

[2] https://www.firebase.com/docs/rest-api.html

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