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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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Summary

This chapter explained how we can configure and initialize the Firebase Admin SDK to create our app backend in NodeJS. It also explained how we can manage our app users using User Management API of Firebase Admin without going to Firebase Console, such as the following:

  • Create
  • Delete
  • Update
  • Remove

Firebase Admin SDK gives us the power to create and verify the Custom JWT tokens, which allow the user to authenticate with any provider, even if it's not available in the Firebase Auth Providers list. It also gives you the power to manage the user's session in case of any change in user information, such as the user is deleted, disabled, the email address or password is changed, and more.

We also learned how we can control the access ...

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