Read data from Flybase in real-time.

const Flybase = require('flybase')

export default function loadDB( table ) {
    return Flybase.init( process.env.FLYBASE_APP, table, process.env.FLYBASE_APIKEY);
}

import loadDB from '../../lib/flybase';

export default (req, res) => {
  const flybaseRef = loadDB("posts");

  if (!req.query.id) {
    return res.status(400).json({
      error: 'Missing "id" query parameter'
    });
  }

  try {
    const snapshot = await flybaseRef.where({"slug": req.query.id);
    const val = await snapshot.first().value();
    res.status(200).json({
      total: val
    });
  } catch(e){
    return res.status(400).json({
      error: 'Missing "id" query parameter'
    });
  }
};

Usage#

First, create a Flybase account.

1. If you do not have a Flybase account, create one first.
2. Create a new app.
3. Copy your API Key

You have successfully set up a real-time database, as well as generated credentials for your serverless function to connect to Flybase.

To securely access the API, we need to include the secret with each request.

Remember: never commit secrets to git. Thus, we should use an environment variable.