# Data\_Viewer and firebase

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-viewer-and-firebase/1072289
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [January 28, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-viewer-and-firebase/1072289 "2021-01-28T04:34:58Z")
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#### Post date: [January 28, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-viewer-and-firebase/1072289/6 "2021-01-28T05:45:18Z")

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> [@JSON Bound Data List Viewer - No More Cloning!](http://community.thunkable.com/t/json-bound-data-list-viewer-no-more-cloning/1041807):
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> If you have been thunking for a while, you may have learned a few things: Data List Viewers and Data Grid Viewers are easy to design and execute quickly on devices Data List Viewer and Data Grid Viewer components cannot be bound to JSON All sorts of Web APIs and Firebase RealtimeDB (aka cloud variables) use JSON Airtable and Google Sheet data sources are generally slower and less reliable than Firebase/Cloud Variables Creating or cloning components for JSON lists are progressively slower and a…

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