React - Firebase Auth Template

This is a newer version of old react firebase authentication boilerplate.

This newer version uses the not so new Context API from react to handle user data and firebase We're also using Typerscript!!

To execute this template with firebase features you need to have an web app registered inside Google Firebase.

Getting Started

1. To start this app, first thing you need to clone it to your work place.
2. Now you should run the command npm install or yarn to install all the packages listed on package.json.
3. You should get your firebase configuration keys in order to connect to your firebase console and we recommend to add them to an .env file with this structure:

REACT_APP_API_KEY=
REACT_APP_AUTH_DOMAIN=
REACT_APP_DATABASE_URL=
REACT_APP_PROJECT_ID=
REACT_APP_STORAGE_BUCKET=
REACT_APP_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=
REACT_APP_APP_ID=
REACT_APP_MEASUREMENT_ID=

4. After that, all you need to do is to run the project with yarn start

Folder Structure and Project Configurations

/pages

This folder contains the pages of the project

• Home
• Login
• Regsiter

/context

Where we define the contexts APIs responsible for handling login, register and logout functions. We also handle the authentication helpers like:

• getting the user from firebase
• seeing if the user is logged
• if it's authenticating (fetching firebase for the user)

We also defined an context for firebase, since we find that it helps to separate the logic between firebase configuration and the businness itself.

to access the contexts you can use useFirebase and useAuthentication we saw that on Kent C. Dodds blog and found it very clever. Thanks Kent ;)

rootProviders

Inside this file is where we pass the "global" providers of our App. Since authentication, firebase and routing(BrowserRouter) can be used in the entire application, we thought would be better to define them in a separated file.

Main Features

• Firebase Authentication
• React Router to handle routing

Packages Utilized

• firebase
• react-router-dom

License

MIT © Samuel Monteiro