title: Building a firebase app without angular
body: <p>I'd like to build a firebase web app.  Most examples seem to recommend using angular with firebase, and the angular-fire bindings in particular.  </p>
  
  <p>I don't use Angular and it seems like unnecessary overhead.  My understanding of firebase is that it provides a simple JS API, where you setup callbacks and handle the events to update the dom, which could presumably be jquery.  Since firebase is using a broadcast/web socket approach to send changes to my app, I'm not sure if I would need angular's 2 way binding all that much.  </p>
  
  <p>So, do i or should i use Angular with firebase or not?  Will I run into issues with $scope and angular's lifecycle of events?  I'm also concerned about the major changes coming with Angular 2.  </p>