If I do this in node:
console.log('1');
console.log('2');
outputs:
1
2
And the process ends.
If I change it to this:
console.log('1');
var Firebase = require('firebase');
var ref = new Firebase('https://<some-base>.firebaseio.com/');
console.log('2');
outputs:
1
2
and the process continues.
I believe that this is because ref is keeping the process alive. I know that I can use process.exit but I would prefer to not do that. I actually don't want the process to exit anyway, I just want to make sure that I don't have a memory leak issue where my firebase ref lasts forever. Is there any way to destroy a firebase reference once I'm done with it?
