Firebase Authentication backend

Firebase Authentication does all the hard work for you . MySQL will do none of the hard work for you. If you have a choice, pick Firebase Authentication every time for ease and flexibility, unless it just doesn’t do what you want, or you just like doing all the hard work.

Go to the Service Accounts page in your project’s settings. Click Generate New Private Key at the bottom of the Firebase Admin SDK section of the Service Accounts page . The new service account’s public/private key pair is automatically saved on your computer. Copy this file to your authentication server.

Go to your firebase console, click the settings icons on the left, and select ‘Project settings’. Then go to the ‘Service Accounts’ tab. There, we will click ‘Generate new private key’, and store it in our client project under config/fbServiceAccountKey. json .

You can use firebase to skip backend programming , or even user firebase to setup a nodejs backend (functions). The bad thing about not using a backend is security, you would need to master firebase security rules to completely protect data.