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Ionic Cookbook

You're reading from   Ionic Cookbook Over 35 exciting recipes to spice up your application development with Ionic

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287978
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hoc Phan Hoc Phan
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Our First App with Ionic FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing States and Navigation 3. Adding Device Features Support 4. Offline Data Storage 5. Handling Gestures and Events 6. App Theme Customization 7. Extending Ionic with Your Own Components 8. User Registration and Authentication 9. Saving and Loading Data Using Firebase 10. Finalizing Your Apps for Different Platforms Index

Creating an Ionic social authentication project for Facebook using $firebaseAuth


So far, you have been just configuring the apps. This recipe will explain how easy it is to write the code to authenticate a user via Facebook, Twitter, or Google. You will go through an example app to set up a login button. The user will click on login to authenticate via his or her social network. Then, the app will display the basic profile information, including the user's picture. Finally, the user can click on logout to end the session.

Getting ready

The only thing that you need here is the Ionic CLI to perform the steps.

How to do it...

The following instructions are used to code for the Facebook authentication:

  1. Create a blank Ionic app (for example, SocialAuth), as follows:

    $ ionic start SocialAuth blank
    
  2. Go to the project folder:

    $ cd SocialAuth
    
  3. For authentication to work on a physical device, it will need two Cordova plugins, InAppBrowser and Cookies. The reason is that the authentication popup window will...

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