Express middleware for your Firebase applications
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Express middleware for your Firebase applications.
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Install the packages using npm
npm install express firebase-admin express-firebase-middleware
Both express
and firebase-admin
are peerDependencies.
Require it in your express routes
var firebaseMiddleware = require('express-firebase-middleware');
router.use('/api', firebaseMiddleware.auth);
Now make sure the client's requests have Authorization header like
Authorization: Bearer <your-client-token>
The client can get the token from their client SDK (Web, Android, iOS Firebase SDK)
When requesting, and token is valid, you can get the user
object from response
router.get('/api/hello', (req, res) => {
res.json({
message: `You're logged in as ${res.locals.user.email} with Firebase UID: ${res.locals.user.uid}`
});
});
By default, the middleware will log and output to console, you can disable them by setting
your environment variable for APP_DEBUG
to false
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