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firebase / firebase-js-sdk

firebase-js-sdk

Firebase Javascript SDK

10Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

Firebase Javascript SDK

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:58:02 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-05-17 22:20:56 UTC to 2023-05-23 14:23:45 UTC.

01232017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

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Yes, Firebase also stores refresh tokens client-side [1]. The trade-off that both Firebase and Stytch are managing when we follow this pattern is the following: - You can provide a significantly better developer experience and set-up with this architecture. While there are designs that allow 3rd party APIs like ours to set HTTPOnly cookies by proxying the 3rd party APIs as subdomains, this creates new burdens on the developer for minimal gain considering that a XSS attack vector indicates a severe compromise of the application. - Today, customers that feel strongly about using HTTPOnly session management will opt for a direct integration with our API using one of our back-end client libraries rather than our JS SDK. While we have interest in providing a HTTPOnly solution in the future to interested customers, we’ve decided the default beh
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avior of the existing SDK is better suited for most developers. [1] https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/blob/0b3ca78eb97...
In Tell HN: Stytch Login SaaS Unicorn has common auth vulnerabilities
I most vividly recall unit testing, storage emulator, auth. For example: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/issues/5086 > Steps to reproduce: > Step 1: Read the documentation for setting up cloud storage unit tests at: https://firebase.google.com/docs/rules/unit-tests#storage > Step 2: Attempt to write unit tests following the examples in the documentation The reporter describes five problems which will thwart you when you try to write code according to the official documentation. How did these docs ship? Did nobody ever try the sample code and verify that the features worked as advertised? Did nobody write any tests to validate that the features actually worked? Are there no policies in place (e.g. "new features require tests" or perhaps code review) to prevent such mishaps?
In Show HN: Appwrite – Open-Source and Self Hosted Firebase Alternative

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