Persistence in Firebase
Explore how Firebase Authentication manages user login states and learn to customize persistence settings to enhance security and usability. Understand the differences between local, session, and none persistence types, and apply the setPersistence function to control when users need to sign in again.
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When a user logs into our Firebase application, the user’s authentication state is persisted by default, until the user explicitly signs out. This is convenient because requiring a user to sign in whenever the user visits our application or reloads the browser is a bad user experience. However, there are situations where this behavior might not be ideal. hen a user logs in on a publicly shared device, forgets to sign out, or when our application holds sensitive information, we need to override this default behavior.
Using the Firebase Authentication ...