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

Until FB implements count as a returned function, I guess the best way to not have client side loop through any returned records is to fetch it the REST way.

ref: What’s the best RESTful method to return total number of items in an object?