I just can't wrap my head around how the authentication is done if I use Firebase auth and I wish to connect it to my django rest backend.
I use the getIdTokenResult provided by firebase as such:
async login() {
this.error = null;
try {
const response = await firebase.auth().signInWithEmailAndPassword(this.email, this.password);
const token = await response.user.getIdTokenResult();
/*
No idea if this part below is correct
Should I create a custom django view for this part?
*/
fetch("/account/firebase/", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"HTTP_AUTHORIZATION": token.token,
},
body: JSON.stringify({ username: this.email, password: this.password }),
}).then((response) => response.json().then((data) => console.log(data)));
} catch (error) {
this.error = error;
}
},
The only thing I find in the firebase docs is this lackluster two line snippet: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/admin/verify-id-tokens#web
where they write
decoded_token = auth.verify_id_token(id_token)
uid = decoded_token['uid']
# wtf, where does this go?
# what do I do with this? Do I put it in a django View?
I found a guide here that connects django rest to firebase: https://www.oscaralsing.com/firebase-authentication-in-django/
But I still don't understand how its all tied together. When am I supposed to call this FirebaseAuthentication. Whenever I try to call the login function I just get a 403 CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
This whole FirebaseAuthentication class provided by the guide I linked to above - should I add that as a path on the backend?
path("firebase/", FirebaseAuthentication, name="api-firebase"),
Which is the api endpoint my frontend calls?