Firebase v3 Query by Grandchild

Question

When registering new email/password type users, I need to make user that the displayName that they enter does not already exist in my Realtime Database before

Answer 1

You'd use Firebase queries for that:

var users = firebase.database().ref('users');
var joes = users.orderByChild('displayName').equalTo('Joe');
joes.once('value', function(snapshot) {
  console.log('A Joe does '+(snapshot.exists()?'':'not ')+' exist')
});

Don't forget to define an index on users:

{
  "rules": {
    "users": {
      ".indexOn": "displayName"
    }
  }
}