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Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points
Posted by Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points

Authentication with AngularJS and Firebase

Has anyone come across a good example/ explanation of authentication using AngularJS and Firebase (using Anglefire)? There is as example on the offical website (https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/guide/login/password.html) but it doesn't explain much.

Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Brad;

I have not worked with Firebase at all but looked at the link you provided and was wondering what additional information you were hoping to learn?

Ken

Marty Hitchcock
Marty Hitchcock
13,108 Points
Marty Hitchcock
Marty Hitchcock
13,108 Points

I could try explain it in vanilla JS if that would help? I am yet to learn angular js so i'm not help there. But I too struggled working out how to get authentication working at first so if it is authentication on firebase in general you are having trouble with rather than authentication with angular specifically then let me know.

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Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points
Brad Woods
Brad Woods
13,772 Points

Ken,

I don't feel the website does a good job of explaining how to integrate the code snippets into an Angular app. For example, the website contains the following - Create new user accounts with the following snippet:

ref.createUser({ email : "bobtony@firebase.com", password : "correcthorsebatterystaple" }, function(error) { if (error === null) { console.log("User created successfully"); } else { console.log("Error creating user:", error); } });

I assume the 'ref' variable is a reference URL to my firebase and 'ref.createUser' is a method that is called through the reference. When i try to run this method however I get a javascript error 'undefined is not a function'. I have 3-way data binding working fine so I know my link to my firebase is fine so it leads me to believe there is more that needs to be done rather than just copying/ pasting this into an app.