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ViewsHow can I access the child of a unique key in Firebase?
I am trying to access the child value of a unique key value (that had been "pushed") within Firebase. Currently, my database looks like this: 
I want to access the value of "emailOfUser"
I am very new to Firebase so I am not familiar with the functions. Currently, this is my method of obtaining other values for a different section of the database: 
Thank you so much for any feedback!
I've tried different methods to accessing this data within the Firebase, but I cannot get it to work/the methods I were using were outdated. I also tried to "update" the Firebase instead of "pushing" the values to prevent a unique key from generating, but it simply overwrote my current data rather than appending something new.
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If you want to load all the users who voted and print their emails, you can do that with:
get(child(dbref, 'usersWhoVoted')).then((snapshot) => {
snapshot.forEach((childSnapshot) => {
console.log(childSnapshot.key, childSnapshot.val().emailOfUser);
});
})
Note that your current structure allows a user to vote multiple times. If you want to only allow them to vote once, use some identifier of the user as the key in your database structure:
userVotes: {
"uniqueIdOfUser1": "valueTheyVotedOn",
"uniqueIdOfUser1": "valueTheyVotedOn",
...
}
Now each user can by definition only vote once, If they vote again (assuming your security rules allow that), their new vote will simply replace the existing vote.