An authentication provider is a service that allows you to authenticate a user. Firebase provides email/password authentication , but there are also external authentication providers such as Facebook.
Read moreHow do I get my Firebase access token?
Do the following in your web or mobile app:
Read moreHow secure is firebase authentication?
The short answer is yes: by authenticating your users and writing security rules, you can fully restrict read / write access to your Firebase data . In a nutshell, Firebase security is enforced by server-side rules, that you author, and govern read or write access to given paths in your Firebase data tree.
Read moreShould I use Firebase for authentication?
There are definitely great advantages if you use Firebase Authentication . Save time on developing Webservice methods for authentication : Instead, you can just have a method to store user information after the user authenticates with Firebase.6 Haz 2016
Read moreWhy you should not use Firebase?
Firebase can be both used from the client (eg: Web, mobile apps), but also from the backend (eg: NodeJS). You may query directly Firebase over the network, right from your backend, but you should avoid doing this because it is really slow at scale .
Read moreCan I use Firebase for authentication only?
Yes, you can use Firebase for auth only and link it to your own database .
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