Authentication support

[Shadowfaxenator]

When an authentication will be supported like it is in angularFire?

[mikeboydbrowne]

You can see an example of a sample authentication system at https://github.com/balinterdi/ideavote-emberfire

[anantn]

We don't plan on adding authentication support in the immediate future, though it is on the roadmap. You can always directly use the Firebase auth API or Simple Login directly.

[katowulf]

@mikeboydbrowne thanks for the great example! It looks like it should be rather helpful for other users until we have auth baked in. Cheers!

[davecyen]

An integrated auth or tutorial on how to use Simple Login with EmberFire would be awesome!

[stefanpenner]

I recently code-reviewed @raytiley's version of this, maybe he is able to share.

[anantn]

Re-opening issue, so we can target this feature in the next couple of release cycles.

[raytiley]

Still a work in progress but people are welcome to glean what info they can from it: https://gist.github.com/raytiley/8976037

This controller is kinda tied to the way I want my app to work (it automatically creates a new ember data User when creating a new user). I'll probably refactor that out.

The big gotcha with the SimpleLogin stuff is that you have a single callback that gets fired every time user state changes. This makes it tricky to wrap things like logging in and logging out with a Promise which would feel more Emberish, especially when checking things like login state via promise aware router hooks.

I can give more feedback later if needed.

[hayd]

I think this would be really useful as a custom generator for ember-cli!

This Stack Overflow question is also related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21084013/implement-firebase-simplelogin-email-password-in-ember-js-app

[davidpett]

Since authentication is now in firebase core, is there plan to add this functionality to emberFire?

[katowulf]

Authentication being added to the core doesn't make it any simpler to implement in Ember. As mentioned before, it's something that is definitely on our radar (this issue is still open). As we grow the team, we'll look into this. In the mean time, use the example from @mikeboydbrowne and build from there.

[davidpett]

@katowulf, thanks for the reply, I'm working on an initializer now that might be helpful, if it gets to a good point, I will submit a PR

[sararob]

@Shadowfaxenator I'm closing this issue since it's a duplicate of #111. We'll work on adding support for authentication in upcoming releases.

[oskarrough]

I have a working authentication Firebase Auth and Emberfire. Some hoops but stable for 2-3 weeks now. Will see if I can publish it somehow.

[sararob]

@oskarrough awesome! Feel free to share when it's ready and I'll take a look

[oskarrough]

@davidpett @sararob here we go: https://gist.github.com/oskarrough/914653b03d886c015320

I added some excessive commenting to the gist with the hope we can make it better together.

[davidpett]

@oskarrough looks very similar to what I have. I will fork this and add in the authWithPassword since that is what I'm using in my app. Great work!

[hayd]

@oskarrough Thanks for posting that!

I wonder if it's worth/makes sense tweaking that into a fully-fledged ember-cli addon?