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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase
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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

by Mayur Tanna, Harmeet Singh
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Managing the user session

Manage the session for the user and give the prompt to reauthenticate, because every time when the user logged in, user credentials are sent to the Firebase Authentication backend and exchanged for a Firebase ID token (a JWT) and refresh token.

These are the common scenarios where we need to manage the session of the user:

  • User is deleted
  • User is disabled
  • Email address and password changed

The Firebase Admin SDK also gives the ability to revoke the specific user session using the revokeRefreshToken() method. It revokes active refresh tokens of a given user. If we reset the password, Firebase Authentication backend automatically revokes the user token.

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