# FirebaseExtended/firechat

Real-time Chat powered by Firebase

Repository: https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/firechat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/firechat
Homepage:  https://firechat.firebaseapp.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-08-10T13:57:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4859, "days_push": 2214, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2394, forks 1017 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:43.498267+00:00)

## What it is
Firechat is an extensible, embeddable chat widget built on the Firebase Realtime Database, requiring no server-side code. It provides a ready-made UI and data layer for adding real-time chat rooms to any web application.

## Use cases
- add a real-time chat widget to a web app
- build a chat product on Firebase without a backend
- embed multi-user chat rooms in a website
- learn how to structure a chat app with Firebase Realtime Database
- add social login (e.g. Twitter) to a chat interface

## When to choose
- you already use Firebase Realtime Database and want a quick chat UI
- you need a serverless chat widget for a small web app
- you want a reference implementation for building chat on Firebase

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software - the project is archived
- you use Firestore instead of the Realtime Database
- you need self-hosted chat without Firebase dependency
- you need modern frameworks like React or Vue integration

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: chat-interface, auth, ui-components
- domain: web-development, chatbots, frontend, messaging-platforms
- platform: browser
- tags: firebase, realtime-chat, chat-widget, archived, jquery, web-server, javascript

## Member repositories
- FirebaseExtended/firechat (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:43.498267+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:34:23.888574+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/firechat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:43.498267+00:00, sha 9d5dac5fc87d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.