Should you use Firebase Auth?

Navigate to the Auth tab on your project from the Firebase Console . You shouldn’t have any users configured, but they’ll show up on this first screen once you do. Click the “SIGN IN METHOD” tab and enable the Email/Password and Anonymous sign in providers. We’ll use only Email/Password and Anonymous.

When an authenticated user performs a request against Cloud Storage, the request. auth variable is populated with the user’s uid ( request. auth. uid ) as well as the claims of the Firebase Authentication JWT ( request.

Firebase is a good choice if you plan to either write a brand-new application or rewrite an existing one from scratch. Additionally, firebase helps in the easy storing and retrieval of dynamic content. If you decide to develop the application without any form of custom coding the backend, firebase makes this easy.

Firebase ID tokens When a user or device signs in using Firebase Authentication, Firebase creates a corresponding ID token that uniquely identifies them and grants them access to several resources, such as Realtime Database and Cloud Storage.