Firebase!

Update the cohort detail view guided project to use Firebase.

Questions

Don't copy paste. Answer in your own words. Answer thoughtfully and thoroughly.

• What is a RESTful interface? When do you use it? What are its characteristics?
• What is the difference between POST and PUT?
• How does the record ID work in Firebase? Why does it take two steps to save a record (first POST then PUT) in our app? Why does the FirebaseItem protocol even exist?
• Explain what a generic type is and what advantages it offers.
• What does a URLRequest do? When do you need one and when can you just use a URL?
• What is the role of a URL session? How does it work?
• What are completion handlers? Why use completion handlers? What advantages do they provide?
• Explain at least three strategies that promote code reuse that we used in today's project

MVP

Your project must

• Load existing data from Firebase on launch
• Allow record edits that update Firebase
• Allow record deletion that is reflected at Firebase

Stretch

Make it more awesome somehow