4 posts tagged with "Firebase Authentication"

In the last Media Library post (#21) we addressed client-side authorization. That is, we established how the front-end renders the app based on who the user is, or better said, what the user's role is. You can think of this as a courtesy to prevent the user from doing things they should (will) not be allowed to do. We still need to implement code on the server that similarly controls what the user can do and what data they have access to. This will save naive users from getting into trouble, but also will prevent malicious users from doing things we don't want them to do.

In this post we address the server side of authorization. It might sound strange to say we need to address server side authorization in a serverless application but in fact, authorization, introduces a somewhat unique challenge to serverless applications (like the one we are building).

Our application navigation is working great where we are leveraging react-router. However, we do have an issue when we perform navigation outside of our application. For example, if a user is logged in and they use the browser's address bar and enter a route we get what we probably think of as unexpected behavior - the application refreshes and the user is logged out. In fact, what is happening is that the state is flushed when the application is refreshed; which is what is happening when the user leverages the address bar in the browser. The same thing happens if we use the browser's refresh button or closes and reopens the browser. In this post we will address this undesirable behavior.

During the registration process we are asking users to provide more than just an email address and a password. We are asking for their first and last name, their company. However, to this point we are throwing that information away. It would be good to store that information somewhere.

I mentioned previously that we will be leveraging Google Firebase to provide the back-end for our application. In this post we set ourselves up to use Firebase and we will get started wiring up Firebase Authentication.