How to increment a record in Firebase?

Question

I have a Firebase record \"searches: 0\" for each user. On some event, I\'d like to add 1 to what the current count is. I\'ve gotten this far, but for some reason, it\'s not

Answer 1

You can use transaction

var databaseRef = firebase.database().ref('users').child(user_uid).child('searches');

databaseRef.transaction(function(searches) {
  if (searches) {
    searches = searches + 1;
  }
  return searches;
});