Django Firebase Auth

Project provide Django authentication middle ware using Firebase Authentication Service

Requirements

• Django
• Firebase Authentication Service

Installation

pip install django-firebase-auth

Generate Firebase Credentials

Usage

Settings

1. Setting credentials

• Credentials from file

FIREBASE_CREDENTIALS_FILE = '<YOUR FIREBASE CREDENTIALS PATH>'  # 'firebase-credentials.json'

• or using credentials from json dict (where you can use as environment variables )

Using credentials from json dict

FIREBASE_CREDENTIALS_DICT = {
    "type": "service_account",
    "project_id": "<YOUR PROJECT ID>",
    "private_key_id": "<YOUR PRIVATE KEY ID>",
    "private_key": '<YOUR PRIVATE KEY>',
    "client_email": "<CLIENT EMAIL>",
    "client_id": "<CLIENT ID>",
    "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
    "token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
    "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
    "client_x509_cert_url": "<CERT URL>"
}

2. Add installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "...",
    "django_firebase_auth",
]

3. Setting authentication backend

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    "DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES": (
        "django_firebase_auth.firebase_auth.FirebaseAuthentication",
    ),
}

Generate Firebase Credentials file

To generate a private key file for your service account:

1. In the Firebase console, open Settings > Service Accounts.
2. Click Generate New Private Key, then confirm by clicking Generate Key.
3. Securely store the JSON file containing the key.

Add Firebase credentials to settings.py

Generate Firebase credentials from Firebase console

TODO:

• Support supabase
• Optimize session management