How to destroy firebase ref in node

Question

If I do this in node:

console.log(\'1\');
console.log(\'2\');

outputs:

1
2

And the process ends.

Answer 1

[Engineer at Firebase] Currently, instantiating the Firebase client with new Firebase(...) will create a long-lived persistent connection that keeps the Node.js process alive.

This is admittedly not ideal for a bunch of use cases, and we have some work to do here to ensure that the process exits cleanly and automatically when there are no outstanding Firebase listeners or pending writes to the server, but it's been medium / low priority. I'd expect a "fix" to be released by Q2 '15, hopefully Q1.