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Firebase Cookbook

You're reading from   Firebase Cookbook Over 70 recipes to help you create real-time web and mobile applications with Firebase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788296335
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Houssem Yahiaoui Houssem Yahiaoui
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Firebase - Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Firebase Real-Time Database 3. File Management with Firebase Storage 4. Firebase Authentication 5. Securing Application Flow with Firebase Rules 6. Progressive Applications Powered by Firebase 7. Firebase Admin SDK 8. Extend Firebase with Cloud Functions 9. We’re Done, Let’s Deploy 10. Integrating Firebase with NativeScript 11. Integrating Firebase with Android/iOS Natively 12. Hack Application's Growth 13. Adding Analytics and Maximizing Earnings 14. Firebase Cloud FireStore

Implementing user metadata retrieval

In many cases, having a user dashboard populated with the user's profile information is the way to go. This works well, especially if you have a Firebase-powered business application. The Firebase auth API offers an easy way to retrieve the currently authenticated user's metadata information, and in this recipe, we're going to see how we can do just that.

How to do it...

  1. In the authentication section within your code, exploit the currentUser() function, as shown in the following code block:
      var user = firebase.auth().currentUser;
var currentUser = {};
if (user != null) {
currentUser.name = user.displayName;
currentUser.email = user.email;
...
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