Authentication

Description

Since WWO uses many features of Firebase, authentication is also a part of it. Firebase uses various providers to authenticate you, such as oauth and email/password authentication. You will need to get a signed authentication token (or accesstoken), a json web token that is used to communicate with the various backend api's. There are several methods to obtain a token. These are listed here.

Information

If most cases you will need to send the token directly in the request headers:

fetch('url', {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {'authorization': `Bearer ${accessToken}`}
})

But during the connection process with a game socket you will need to add it to the query object.

Methods of getting authentication working

• Use the firebase auth api by yourself
• Use WWAuth (a little framework by me)

References

• https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth
• https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/rest/auth
• https://rnfirebase.io/auth/usage
• https://jwt.io/