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Gabor
Gabor

Reputation: 11

What's the recommended approach to setup a Stream activity feed using Firebase and anonymous users?

I'd like to show a global activity feed and the counts of reactions to website visitors (without a user account). My app is using Firebase and React.

What I'd like to have:

  1. Show a global feed (I'll do this by adding the activities with the "to:" field in each activity) and show it on the start page (no user accounts created so far, read-only)
  2. Show the counts of likes for each activity (read-only)
  3. As soon as someone clicks on the follow or like button, I'll require the user to sign in and create an account. The process after this step is straightforward to me. I'll use a Firebase function to create the auth token and use the client side React components to display the feeds and reactions.

I did not find a solution to show the global feed and the count of reactions to visitors who does not have a user auth token.

Some workarounds in my mind:

Do you have another solution in mind?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 317

Answers (1)

Gabor
Gabor

Reputation: 11

I've found a way to create read-only tokens for the client using the JWTScopeToken helper function. (Feed wide read-only tokens)

const streamSigner = require('getstream/lib/signing')
const apiSecret = '###APISECRET###'
const clientToken = streamSigner.JWTScopeToken(apiSecret, 'feed', 'read', {'feedId': '*', userId: "global"})
console.log("read-only client token for all feeds", clientToken)

Using this token a can show user and global feeds to new visitors. I do not have to create an anonymous user anymore.

Upvotes: 0

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