I was developing a medical application (meaning I have to store patient information) with flutter as the frontend and mongoDB as the backend. Is it safe to use the "mongo_dart" package for signin / signup? Or must I use another package such as "http" and build a backend?
This is my first time building an authentication system, so I am really lost. When it is possible to use "mongo_dart" for authentication, how can I do so? Will I need to add a separate cluster for users, such that when an email and password matches I will grant user access?
First of all MongoDB is a database, it isn't a backend service. You can only store your data there.
The description of the "mongo_dart" starts with this sentence:
"Server-side driver library..."
So this package can be used for creating an API in dart. And also it is highly recommended to have an own backend service for your app.
So you can use Flutter for the frontend and MongoDB as your database service. Now you have to choose a language for backend, such as Node.js, Python or you can go with Dart as well.
And with your own API you could have an own API url, such as like: "https://myownpage.com/api/*". And in your Flutter app you can call this route for various actions: logging in, querying data and so on.
So it is absolutely fine to use all the things that you mentioned, but you have to create a backend application for the magic happening behind your mobile app.
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I am new to react-native development. I need to implement User Authentication for Login and Sign Up for my react native apps. I saw some tutorial using Firebase Authentication but I plan to use the mongoDB instead of Firebase. I am not sure how to use mongoDB. For firebase its pretty simple because they provide API URLS and all we need to do is just send the request with our data. But when I am trying to use mongoDB I am not sure how to implement and get the token key back from server side. Do I need to write server side code for mongoDb or they have simplified API URL like firebase? Please Help . Thank You
You are missing a lot of concepts.
Firebase is a BaaS (Backend as a Service), so it sell you a backend already done with authentication, database ecc.
Mongo DB is a database, it could be IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) or Paas (Platform as a Service), but it's not a BaaS.
So you can't just replace firebase with mongo, but you need to build your whole backend and have a server to deploy it. You need to manage environments, authentication, security and many other feature that firebase already offers you.
I must mention that I have no prior experience in backend development, and I know that questions on the subject have been asked before but I need a specific answer to this one.
I was wondering if I could use Firebase authentication to register & sign in my users and store their data in Mongodb?
If so, what am I supposed to learn besides "firebase_auth" and a Mangodb package to make it work?
Yes, you can do that. Actually firebase auth will provide a uid after authentication that you can use in MongoDB to identify the user. To make it work you'll need to have your own backend or APIs that will help you retrieve the data from MongoDB after the user is authenticated via firebase. Whereas a backend or the API is considered you can use any framework to make it eg. flask(python), express(nodejs), ruby on rails, etc.
If you already have an existing authentication system and want to integrate it with firebase then firebase provides custom authentication, you can have a look at the same.
You can use python fast-api that makes your development faster
I am planning to use Firebase as my backend service for the mobile application. As part of the functionality, I need to get the data from external rest API which returns JSON data. I need to update the data periodically so that I can have updated information.
I have an option to call the rest API and update firebase on the mobile application however it is not the right approach. I prefer to keep this logic on the backend service.
Is there a way to use Firebase cloud function to periodically update firebase database from external Rest API?
#Ioki, I assume what you are trying to do is make a mobile app which gets updated data every time a user goes to the app but you want this to be on the backend. I haven't tried it but you might want to use Node js with their Firebase Admin SDK.
See the link: https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup
Although I think it might make more sense to use the real-time database via the iOS/ Android SDK because automatic/ value event updates are basically the purpose of the real- time database. Good luck! :)
I am wondering if it is possible to use just the Firebase authentication system together with your own API and database.
It has some nice features I want to take advantage of, however I do not wish to use their database or storage.
The application I am building is an Angular2 and express application with a MongoDB database.
Any answers will be greatly appreciated!
That definitely is possible: you can create your own identity provider that plugs into Firebase Authentication. This is often referred to as custom authentication. To implement this, you need a server (or other trusted process) where you authenticate your users and mint security tokens for then. You then pass this token to the user and have them pass it into Firebase.
But keep in mind: many Firebase features work fine without authentication. For example: if you use Cloud Messaging, Crash Reporting, Test Lab or many other features, you might not need to implement Firebase Authentication at all.
I have tried Google with queries similar to the title of this question, but haven't found anything useful.
Background: I am building a web app and would like to add a user authentication level to it. I cannot imagine anything worse than building a user authentication system from the ground up, so I want a quick solution.
I'm looking for open source software I can host on my server that provides an auth layer I can connect to, with multiple user accounts
Criteria:
I want to host the software on my own server
Provide a log in screen that works with multiple sign in strategies - twitter, facebook, vanilla email, etc.
Persists users to a database (preferably postgres) and persists session data
Preferably lets me store a minimal amount of data per user, like key value store
Has a client-side (Javascript) API, like Facebook's JS, so I can use this auth service on multiple sites. Namely, I want to use it on localhost or my own file system (when allowing file cookies). Client side JS API exposes methods like log in / log out
Has a server side API (such as exposes local RESTful endpoints) so that when I do build out my server side app for other data storage outside of the user, my app can query the auth service for log in status.
I want to run this stack completely independently of my own app - in fact I want to run this auth service and purely communicate to it from my local dev environment without building any server side app of my own.
I have used Firebase and they do many of the things that I want, including log in strategies and the client / server side APIs, but I want to be able to host my own version of this.
I can't imagine anyone takes pleasure out of building user authentication of any kind, so I'm surprised I haven't found anything in research.
I also know this is an open-ended question, but as far as I can tell I haven't found anything satisfying my requirements.
I like Devise (https://github.com/plataformatec/devise), which is for Rails. It has an active community with a boatloads of plugins available that can fulfill many of your requirements.
I didn't see a language specified; most languages and frameworks have their own implementations. Can you provide more information?
Example: I use the Flask framework on python. In addition, I use the Authomatic library which provides Oauth access for twitter, google, facebook, etc.
What I was looking for is something called a Single Sign On solution. According to this list there is nothing currently that meets my criteria.
Instead I have chosen to just run a local webserver and implement a regular auth flow.