Total number of records in Firebase (when am I done counting?)

Question

Counting records in a table is obviously a manual effort until you guys get some of that spiffy new functionality already in the works ;)

However, I\'m stuck on even

Answer 1

With "child_added" there is no way to know when you've received the "last" item. If you're looking to count all of the children that existed at a particular point in time, I'd suggest using the "value" event as follows:

var table = new Firebase('http://beta.firebase.com/user/tablename');

table.on('value', function(snapshot) {
   var count = 0;
   snapshot.forEach(function() {
       count++;
   });
   //count is now safe to use.
});