Note at this time the application is not functional because of the bug in AngularFire2 beta 2

Custom authentication using AngularFire2

Custom authentication means that your server is going to take care of authenticating the user. On successful authentication the server will return a JWT (JSON Web Token) that the front end client application will submit to the firebase.

Setup

Both the server and client applicaticons require their corresponsing credentials.

Server setup

• Please follow the instructions at https://firebase.google.com/docs/server/setup#add_firebase_to_your_app to setup the service account.
• Make sure to download your credential file (JSON file) and rename it to fb_credentials.json.
• Copy fb_credentials.json to server folder
• In server/app.js, replace FB_DB_URL to your database URL

Client setup

• Go to your firebase console
• Go to the Auth menu
• Click on Web Setup and copy the client credentials
• In client/src/app/main.ts update the constants to use the values from Web Setup

Running

Server

cd firebase-custom-auth-example/server
npm install
nodemon app.js

You will have the application running at http://localhost:8080

Client

cd firebase-custom-auth-example/server
npm install
typings install
npm start

You will have the application running at http://localhost:3000

Test Credentials

Email : ksachdeva@someemail.com
Password: password1