component-firebase-auth.md

id	title	sidebar_label
component-firebase-auth	Firebase Auth	Firebase Auth

Firebase Auth component is used to authenticate users. It also ensures that users are only accessible to certain data.

Examples and uses

• Creating a new user with given username and password.
• Logging in an existing user
• Making sure users recevive the correct infomation

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Blocks

create user with email and password

The 'create user with email and password' block creates a new user on the Firebase database using the E-mail and password given by the user.

Type	Explanation	Required
Firebase Auth	Targeted Firebase Auth component	Yes
String	User E-mail	Yes
String	User password	Yes

sign in user with email and password

The 'sign in user with email and password' block signs the user in the app by checking against the Firebase database.

Type	Explanation	Required
Firebase Auth	Targeted Firebase Auth component	Yes
String	User E-mail	Yes
String	User password	Yes

sign in anonymously

The 'sign in anonymously' block signs in the user without any login infomation or registration needed.

Type	Explanation	Required
Firebase Auth	Targeted Firebase Auth component	Yes

is logged in

The 'is logged in' boolean will return a True if the user has been authenticated via Firebase, otherwise it will return a False.

get email

The 'get email' block retrieves the e-mail address of the current user.

get Uid

The 'get Uid' block retrieves the unique identification (Uid) of the current user.

send password reset email to

The 'send password reset email to' block sends a password reset e-mail to the given e-mail address.

Type	Explanation	Required
Firebase Auth	Targeted Firebase Auth component	Yes
String	Email address	Yes

sign out

The 'sign out' block logs the user out from the app and deletes its infomation from the app data

Events

onCreateUserComplete

The 'onCreateUserComplete' event triggers when Firebase auth finishes attampting to create a new user in the database. Success (Boolean) - Tells whether the user creation was successful. True if the user was created successfully, otherwise False errorMessage (String) - The error message can be retrived here if the user creation was not successful.

onLogInUserComplete

The 'onLogInUserComplete' event triggers when Firebase auth finishes attampting to log in an user using the database. Success (Boolean) - Tells whether the user log-in was successful. True if the user was created successfully, otherwise False errorMessage (String) - The error message can be retrived here if the user log-in was not successful.

onResetPasswordEmailSent

The 'onResetPasswordEmailSent' event triggers when a password reset E-Mail has been sent to the selected E-mail address.