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So, when you say it's "fully client-side code" -- what that looks to me to mean is not that it's not talking to a server somewhere, but that it's talking to Firebase's servers rather than my servers. Is that correct?
Right, communication to Firebase happens with its API.
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#61Can you run it without it communicating with Firebase? (If not, how is that better than having it under your own control?)