# firebase | |
Client library for the REST API of the Firebase Realtime Database. | |
## curl | |
In order to manually debug potential sync issues, we can use `curl` to interact | |
with the database from the command line. | |
Reading data: | |
```sh | |
curl <host>/<path>.json -X GET | |
``` | |
Writing data: | |
```sh | |
curl <host>/<path>.json -X PUT -d <data> | |
``` | |
Opening a notification stream: | |
```sh | |
curl -L <host>/<path>.json -X GET -H "Accept: text/event-stream" | |
``` |