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Flux Backbone Firebase Todos Example

This is the Flux Backbone Todos app with minor modifications to add Firebase persistance.

The changes are minimal, largely amounting to replacing the Backbone Todo Collection with a BackboneFire Collection. The remaining changes replaced node modules with <script> tags because Firebase JavaScript modules are not (as of November 2014) distributed via npm -- this in turn does away with the need to bundle the app for distribution using Webpack.

IMPORTANT: You will need to create your own Firebase account to run or deploy the application and you will need to:

Edit firebase.json and change the "firebase" property to your Firebase name.
Edit ./app/app.jsx change the Collection url property to your Firebase URL.

Lessons learnt

If the BackboneFire Collection autoSync property is true (the default value) then do not use Backbone Model/Collection fetch/save/destroy syncing functions -- BackboneFire does that for you.
The app does not use ReactFire, there's no need because the app does not use component State properties.
Firebase Hosting is HTTPS by default, this means that you need to load external content via HTTPS otherwise you will get browser Mixed Content errors. If you leave the protocol prefix off a URL the browser treats it as a relative URL and so it will use the same protocol as it used to load the page e.g.
```
  src="//cdn.firebase.com/js/client/2.0.5/firebase.js"></script>
```

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