Firebase Cookbook

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, ...