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iclems / Firebase Lazy-Safe Iterator
Last active June 21, 2018 09:48
This snippet enables to iterate over a Firebase reference in a non-blocking way. If you need to iterate over a large reference, a child_added query may block your Firebase as it will query the whole data before iteration. With this snippet, children are retrieved one by one, making it slower / safer.
// By Clément Wehrung
function Iterator(queueRef, processingCallback) {
this.queueRef = queueRef;
this.processingCallback = processingCallback;
this.processed = {};
this.processNext();
}
Iterator.prototype.processNext = function() {