Is using createUserWithEmailAndPassword with Firebase JS SDK not possible?

[braincomb]

Hi,

We are considering adding createUserWithEmailAndPassword and signInWithEmailAndPassword to our Capacitor app on top of our social provider logins, but we currently have skipNativeAuth=true just so that we can use JS SDK to access Firestore, etc.

It appears that to use email/password sign-in method, skipNativeAuth must be false, which means we probably can no longer use Firebase JS SDK, which also means we will probably want to use capawesome/firestore plugin also. Is that correct?

Is there any workaround for this, since we would rather prefer to keep using Firebase JS SDK for accessing Firestore.

Thanks!

[robingenz]

You can set skipNativeAuth individually for each call:

const createUserWithEmailAndPassword = async () => {
	await FirebaseAuthentication.createUserWithEmailAndPassword({
		skipNativeAuth: false,
		...
	});
};

Why don't you use the Firebase SDK directly for this call?

[braincomb]

Doesn't look like createUserWithEmailAndPassword supports skipNativeAuth as an option. It's only part of the SignInOptions.

export interface CreateUserWithEmailAndPasswordOptions {
    /**
     * @since 0.2.2
     */
    email: string;
    /**
     * @since 0.2.2
     */
    password: string;
}

Why don't you use the Firebase SDK directly for this call?

Not ideal as it introduces a bit more complexity now that I have to mix-and-match two different APIs, but seems like I have no choice. Thanks for the suggestion!