I am making a react-native (expo) chat app. Throughout the app including Auth-work , Users-work, etc, I have used Firebase Rest API to do all the work. Now in the messaging section, I am using react-native-gifted-chat I have made the sending messaging functionality and I am storing my Messages like this.

FireBase storing Messaging

Like in the firebase package, we can do something like onSnapshot() but is there a way to do the same In the rest API. If not, what should I do if I don't want to install firebase and only work through rest API. In Conclusion: I want to ask is there a way in firebase rest API to do something when a node changes (like Chatroom node)

Any help will be appreciated Thanks in advance

CodePudding user response：

If you want to listen for updates through REST, you can use the streaming REST API, which delivers this functionality through Event Source/Server Sent Events.

Implementing this is typically quite a bit more involved than using a Firebase SDK, so if an SDK is available for your platform, I recommend using that.