From d6dd64c5bce7ce0d4c8a263bc9ac37f3c4b8c906 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Diarmid Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:58:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 886afd9a..4f401321 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ [![Package Quality](http://npm.packagequality.com/shield/react-native-firebase.svg?style=flat-square)](http://packagequality.com/#?package=react-native-firebase) [![License](https://img.shields.io/npm/l/react-native-firebase.svg?style=flat-square)](/LICENSE) [![Chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-on%20discord-7289da.svg?style=flat-square)](https://discord.gg/t6bdqMs) +[![Chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-on%20gitter-a0e7a0.svg?style=flat-square)](https://gitter.im/invertase/react-native-firebase) [![Donate](https://img.shields.io/badge/Donate-Patreon-green.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.patreon.com/invertase) @@ -29,10 +30,12 @@ RNFirebase is a _light-weight_ layer sitting on-top of the native Firebase libra Although the [Firebase Web SDK](https://www.npmjs.com/package/firebase) library will work with React Native, it is mainly built for the web. -RNFirebase provides a JavaScript bridge to the native Firebase SDKs for both iOS and Android. Firebase will run on the native thread, allowing the rest of your app to run on the [JS thread](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/performance.html#javascript-frame-rate). The Firebase Web SDK also runs on the JS thread, therefore potentially affecting the frame rate causing jank with animations, touch events etc. All in all, RNFirebase provides much faster performance (~2x) over the web SDK. +RNFirebase provides a JavaScript bridge to the native Firebase SDKs for both iOS and Android therefore Firebase will run on the native thread, allowing the rest of your app to run on the [JS thread](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/performance.html#javascript-frame-rate). The Firebase Web SDK also runs on the JS thread, therefore potentially affecting the frame rate causing jank with animations, touch events etc. The native SDKs also allow us to hook into device sdk's which are not possible with the web SDK, for example crash reporting, offline realtime database support, analyics and more! +All in all, RNFirebase provides much faster performance (~2x) over the web SDK and provides device sdk's not found in the web sdk (see the feature table below). + --- ### Supported Firebase Features