Save Data with unique key

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Save data with unique key

var postsRef = ref.child("posts");

var newPostRef = postsRef.push();
newPostRef.set({
  author: "gracehop",
  title: "Announcing COBOL, a New Programming Language"
});

// we can also chain the two calls together
postsRef.push().set({
  author: "alanisawesome",
  title: "The Turing Machine"
});

  "posts": {
    "-JRHTHaIs-jNPLXOQivY": {
      "author": "gracehop",
      "title": "Announcing COBOL, a New Programming Language"
    },
    "-JRHTHaKuITFIhnj02kE": {
      "author": "alanisawesome",
      "title": "The Turing Machine"
    }
  }
}

Getting the unique key generated by push()

// Generate a reference to a new location and add some data using push()
var newPostRef = postsRef.push();

// Get the unique key generated by push()
var postId = newPostRef.key;