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Reputation: 9013

What is the expected timeframe for authentication in firebase?

I'm using the built-in Firebase password authentication and I'm wondering what a "reasonable" timeout for logging in via authWithPassword(). I had thought initially that this would be sub-second but now it appears there is a lot of volatility and even at 3 seconds I'm getting a lot of timeouts.

note: I suspect this might not be the highest priority because for typical client app the logging in process is a one-time affair but for micro-services the headroom of 3 seconds is pretty substantial (most operations overall run time is 1-2 seconds). Happy to be wrong.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 231

Answers (1)

David East
David East

Reputation: 32604

This is fairly subjective to the app, but Firebase login should be faster than 3 seconds. If you're consistently seeing long times and connection errors, then you should contact [email protected].

You can also let Firebase handle the timeout and/or errors for you in the callback:

var ref = new Firebase("https://<YOUR-FIREBASE-APP>.firebaseio.com");
ref.authWithPassword({
  email    : "[email protected]",
  password : "correcthorsebatterystaple"
}, function(error, authData) {
  if (error) {
    // this is your login issue
    console.error("Login Failed!", error);
  } else {
    console.log("Authenticated successfully with payload:", authData);
  }
});

Upvotes: 1

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