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Carson Yau
Carson Yau

Reputation: 519

How to Get Current User in Backend with Firebase in Node.js?

I am so confused, all the Firebase authentication tutorial online are teaching how to login in frontend,

of course you can get the token and send it to server for verification if its a post request,

but what about normal get request like a page request? I have installed firebase-admin already but i didnt find any method for getting current user........

i am using node and express

for example

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    const idToken = (where can i get the token??)
    console.log(idToken);
    res.render('index.ejs');
});

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2134

Answers (1)

Doug Stevenson
Doug Stevenson

Reputation: 317382

You still have to arrange for the auth token to be sent in the HTTP request. You can do that with a header in the request. Sample code showing exactly this case can be found in the official samples. This will work for any HTTP method, and is a lot better than trying to use a POST body.

The sample uses the Authorization header to transmit the token and verifyIdToken() to make sure it's valid.

Upvotes: 3

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