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What is Firebase Auth?

What is Firebase Auth?

From the course: Angular: Creating and Hosting a Full-Stack Site

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What is Firebase Auth?

- [Instructor] Okay, at this point, we've got a fully functional full stack app. We built out an entire front-end and back-end, and now they're communicating with each other just the way they should be. However, before we release our application into production, there's one thing that's a very important part of most applications, and that's authentication. Now at its most basic, authentication simply means that our application allows users to create accounts and then log in and log out. And it also means that our application keeps track of what belongs to who in our application and prevents users from doing things that they shouldn't be able to do. For example, we don't want users to be able to edit or delete each other's listings, of course. In this section, we're going to see how to add basic authentication functionality to our app. Now obviously, one possibility of adding authentication to our app would be to build out…

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