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Firebase Cookbook

You're reading from   Firebase Cookbook Over 70 recipes to help you create real-time web and mobile applications with Firebase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788296335
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Houssem Yahiaoui Houssem Yahiaoui
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Preface 1. Firebase - Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Firebase Real-Time Database 3. File Management with Firebase Storage 4. Firebase Authentication 5. Securing Application Flow with Firebase Rules 6. Progressive Applications Powered by Firebase 7. Firebase Admin SDK 8. Extend Firebase with Cloud Functions 9. We’re Done, Let’s Deploy 10. Integrating Firebase with NativeScript 11. Integrating Firebase with Android/iOS Natively 12. Hack Application's Growth 13. Adding Analytics and Maximizing Earnings 14. Firebase Cloud FireStore

Implementing anonymous authentication

Authentication is one of the most tricky, time-consuming and tedious tasks in any web application. and of course, maintaining the best practices while doing so is truly a hard job to maintain. For mobiles, it's even more complex, because if you're using any traditional application it will mean that you're going to create a REST endpoint, an endpoint that will take an email and password and return either a session or a token, or directly a user's profile information. In Firebase, things are a bit different and in this recipe, we're going to see how we can use anonymous authentication—we will explain that in a second.

You might wonder, but why? The why is quite simple: to give users an anonymous temporal, to protect data and to give users an extra taste of your application's inner soul. So let's see...

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