Ember-simple-auth-firebase-user-session

This Ember addon is an opinionated session storage for using Firebase with Ember Simple Auth.

Installation

• For ember projects run ember install ember-simple-auth-firebase-user-session

The associated generator with this package will add session: 'session:with-user' to your simple-auth config. If you already have any simple-auth configuration in your config/environment.js file, you will need to manually add this setting.

Use

This is a very opinionated Session Store. It uses Ember Data to look up a user model and looks up by a uid property.

At a minimum, your User model will need to look like:

import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.Model.extend({
  uid: DS.attr('string'),
});

The user model can optionally include the following other attributes which could be included with your model:

• provider - Provider used to login (password, facebook, twitter, etc.)
• email - Email associated with the logged in user (populated when possible by password provider)
• profileImageURL - Profile image via Gravatar associated with the logged in user (populated when possible by password provider)

session.currentUser

Since Ember Simple Auth injects the selected session into your controllers and routes, you can get the logged in user model by accessing session.currentUser. This is using an Ember Proxy Object with a Promise to resolve the user for use in templates. However, if you want the current user for things like updating profile information or associating records, please use the session.getCurrentUser function.

session.getCurrentUser

This function returns a promise to look up the current user by their uid property and will create and save a new user for the current session if none exists. To look up the current user as a model for use in routes:

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  model() {
    return this.get('session').getCurrentUser();
  }
});

Using the currentUser for things like associating related records or updating profile information is a bit different:

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  actions: {
    updateProfile(name) {
      this.get('session').getCurrentUser().then((user) => {
        user.set('name', name);

        user.save();
      });
    }
});