Adding multiple users to Firebase using Angular

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I have been trying to set up a page using Angular, where an admin with requisite permissions can add users using Firebase 'username' and 'password' authentication.

I have been lurking around stackoverflow for answers. I have found : Firebase create user "manually" and this: Firebase kicks out current user

Going by the answers, I think they have achieved this by not using the Admin SDK and by bypassing the re-authentication that happens after a user is registered.

Problem is, I am a newbie and I am working in Angular. I was told to add the API keys and everything in the environment.ts and then add the Initialize method to the app.module.ts. How do I go about this special use case? The procedure I follow could be wrong altogether. I am trying to wrap my head around this. Any help or a link to any resource online would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

firebase.google.com/docs/auth/admin/manage-users#create_a_user — camden_kid
– camden_kid, Commented Sep 29, 2017 at 12:35
Doesn't the admin SDK require node? I was hoping to have angular as front end and firebase as backend. Is there something that I am missing? — user165242
– user165242, Commented Sep 29, 2017 at 12:56
You can use Angular and Firebase for front end and Firebase functions for backend - firebase.google.com/docs/functions. you don't need a separate Node server. — camden_kid
– camden_kid, Commented Sep 29, 2017 at 13:09
Thanks. I was thinking of some solution of this kind: firebase.google.com/docs/web/setup#initialize_multiple_apps. I think this is the same solution implemented in stackoverflow.com/questions/37553362/…. But how do I do this in Angular? — user165242
– user165242, Commented Sep 29, 2017 at 15:09

user165242 · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-02 10:23:11Z

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Well in the end it goes this way.

Keep the regular initilize.app method in your app.module.ts.
Initialize the App again as a separate service (or wherever) with a separate name, which would be something like initialize.app(config,"secondary"); - The "secondary" thing is important. Call it any name, I just added it as secondary. Add users with this initialization. config is your API key and other files you get from firebase.
Because of this "secondary" initialization there would not be any re-authentication of the user.

Phew. Thats like two days of work. lol.

answered Oct 2, 2017 at 10:23

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user165242 Over a year ago

That was the same thing that was being said in the links that I gave in the question earlier. But, github.com/angular/angularfire2/issues/761 helped me out as I was confused where to add the secondary initialization in angular, whether it is the app.module or elsewhere.

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