How can I have both firebase and firebase-admin in the same project.

[Vincent Bergeron]

Hi!

It's a follow-up of this thread:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/EhZKkaQZpHE

I need to use the client`s signInWithEmailAndPassword  in my application. Therefore, I want to use both firebase and firebase-admin SDK.

here's my dependencies:

"dependencies": {

    "express": "^4.16.3",

   "firebase": "^5.3.0",

   "firebase-admin": "5.12.1",

   "firebase-functions": "^1.1.0",

    "lodash": "^4.17.10",

   "moment": "^2.22.2",

   "moment-timezone": "^0.5.21",

   "uuid": "^3.3.2"

 }

I do:

import * as firebase from 'firebase';

const authFirebaseApp = firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig, `myapp`);

const firebaseAuth = firebase.auth(authFirebaseApp);

When the last line is executed, I get this error:

TypeError: firebase.auth is not a function

 

I read some posts that suggest it was a version/dependency problems, so I remove my node_module folder and reinstall everything.

I even first used firebase-admin version 5.13.0, but I got more errors:

E:\DEV\html\TuxedoBackend\functions

`-- UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY firebas...@5.13.0

npm WARN firebase-...@1.1.0 requires a peer of firebase-admin@~5.12.1 but none was installed.

npm WARN functions No repository field.

npm WARN functions No license field.

npm ERR! code 1

So what should I do to make this working?

Thanks

VB

[Vincent Bergeron]

Well, I found a work-around...

In order to achieve what I want, I can send an Http request to validate the user and password like this:

POST https://www.googleapis.com/identitytoolkit/v3/relyingparty/verifyPassword?key=MY_PROJECT_API_KEY

Body:

{

      "email": "us...@email.com",

     "password": "mypassword"

}

And the response:

{

    "kind": "identitytoolkit#VerifyPasswordResponse",

    "localId": "AN_ID",

    "email": "us...@email.com",

    "displayName": "",

    "idToken": "AN_ID_TOKEN",

    "registered": true

}

But I really would like to be able to use both Client and Admin SDK in the same project...