So I have been using firebase with Pyrebase-python and it has been working out well so far for a prototype. For login I get the email and password, post through ajax and then use sign_in_with_email(email, password). Boom, the user is verified and I have a refresh token to access the firebase db with. This worked out well until I realized that I needed to query the data on different fields. Errror!! So the work around is adding a field like accountUUID_campaignUUID and querying on that. Ok, not so bad. However, now they have released Firestore, which includes multiple queries. I would like to implement this feature, however, if I use the python sdk, it only validated with Google IAM and not the Firebase Auth. So what do I do now? All my models and backend is written in python. If I move all the models to the client JS, that would solve one problem, however, I still need to perform backend functions on the data. So do I get the data in the JS frontend, then send it to the python backend, perform function, then send to frontend? This seems pointless and redundant. At this point, I could just drop the realtime function as its not 100% necessary and just go with MongoDB and write a custom JWT authorization. Firebase Realtime Database/Firestore has really been pissing me off lately. Why is everything forced in the front end? But I guess that's my fault for trying to force Realtime Database/Firestore with python... Maybe I'll try it again with my next project, maybe not... Continue reading...
