Swift and Firebase

Nothing especially new here, but a reminder: Firebase might be a good choice if you need realtime updates.

Instead of implementing and connecting to websockets and implementing one-time requests and observing differently, you can simply use getData or observeValue as they are already implemented.

Even some errors vanish when observing: you start by the cache and if there is no update due to errors, you don’t get new data. But beware: Firebase still might not be the best choice, depending on your app or the circumstances.