How can I find proper documentation for firebase realtime database and flutter?

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So I recently shifted to realtime database from cloud firestore for my app's chat features, mostly because of how expensive cloud firestore can be on scale in terms of a chat app with multiple reads/writes.

The problem I'm facing is that there are no proper documentation or any sort of courses that I can take which will educate me on how to implement the realtime database with flutter. I'm struggling a lot with displaying the chat messages in the order of the time they were sent. With cloud firestore there was proper material that I could read and learn from. But this doesn't seem to be the case for realtime database and flutter.

This seems very weird, because if I am not wrong , RTDB was launched way before cloud firestore, so shouldn't there be more material for that , or am I missing something?

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You are right, real time database is much older than Firestore, but there aren't many resources and most of them are outdated, I wanted to shift for real time database for the exact same reason, a chat app, the best thing I could find is this Youtube video, it has everything you need to know and after watching I feel like real time database is much easier than Firestore, all you need to do add new item to the database is .pus().set({}) and you're done, as for loading data you only need FireBaseAnimatedList and all the data comes sorted, since the random key that each new item generates comes with a time stamp, again every thing I needed was in that youtube video, so you don't need that much to learn it.

Best of luck.

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