I understand that in Firebase I can register my page for callbacks with the "on" method.
According to their docs:
on( ) is used to listen for data changes at a particular location. This is the primary way to read data from Firebase.
firebaseRef.on('value', function(dataSnapshot) {
// code to handle new value.
});
My question is:
How does it work ?
How does it know that something has changed on the serverside ?
(better) How does the server can 'callback' the browser ?
One answer might be that it is "polling". But I have seen no reference about this approach in Firebase documentation or properties to configure polling time ...
Does anybody know ?
Many Thanks