Express Firebase Middleware

Express middleware for your Firebase applications.

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Minimum requirements

• Node 6 or later
• npm 3 or later
• Firebase account

How to use

1. Install the packages using npm

   npm install express firebase-admin express-firebase-middleware

   Both express and firebase-admin are peerDependencies.

2. Require it in your express routes

   var firebaseMiddleware = require('express-firebase-middleware');
   
   router.use('/api', firebaseMiddleware.auth);

3. 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)

4. 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}`
       });
   });

Debug mode

By default, the middleware will log and output to console, you can disable them by setting your environment variable for APP_DEBUG to false

License

MIT