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Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development

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Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development

Overview of this book

In this book, we will build a full stack web application right from scratch up to its deployment. We will start by building a small introduction application and then proceed to the creation of a fully functional, dynamic responsive web application called ProFitOro. In this application, we will build a Pomodoro timer combined with office workouts. Besides the Pomodoro timer and ProFitOro workouts will enable authentication and collaborative content management. We will explore topics such as Vue reactive data binding, reusable components, routing, and Vuex store along with its state, actions, mutations, and getters. We will create Vue applications using both webpack and Nuxt.js templates while exploring cool hot Nuxt.js features such as code splitting and server-side rendering. We will use Jest to test this application, and we will even revive some trigonometry from our secondary school! While developing the app, you will go through the new grid system of Bootstrap 4 along with Vue.js’ directives. We will connect Vuex store to the Firebase real-time database, data storage, and authentication APIs and use this data later inside the application’s reactive components. Finally, we will quickly deploy our application using the Firebase hosting mechanism.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Vue.js 2 and Bootstrap 4 Web Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

How does authentication work with Firebase?


In the previous chapter, you learned how to use the Firebase API to create a Firebase application instance and use it through your application. We were able to access the database, read it, and store data in it.

The way you work with the Firebase authentication API is very similar. You create a Firebase instance, providing a config object to it, and you use the firebase.auth() method to access different methods related with the authentication. Check your Firebase console's Authentication tab:

There are no users yet but we will fix it in a minute!

The Firebase SDK provides several ways for users to authenticate:

  • Email and password based authentication: The classic way for authenticating users. Firebase provides a way to sign in users with email/password and log them in. It also provides methods to reset the user password.

  • Federated entity provider authentication: The way of authenticating users with an external entity provider, such as Google, Facebook...