expo-firebase-starter 🔥

Is a quicker way to start with Expo + Firebase (using JS SDK) projects. It includes:

• based on Expo SDK 45
• navigation using react-navigation 6.x.x
• Firebase JS SDK v9
• Firebase as backend for email auth
• custom and reusable components
• custom hook to toggle password field visibility on a TextInput
• handles server errors using Formik
• Login, Signup & Password Reset form built using Formik & yup
• show/hide Password Field's visibility 👁
• uses a custom Provider using Context API & Firebase's onAuthStateChanged handler to checks user's auth state with
• handles Forgot Password Reset using Firebase email method
• uses Expo Vector Icons
• uses KeyboardAwareScrollView package to handle keyboard appearance and automatically scrolls to focused TextInput
• uses dotenv and expo-constants packages to manage environment variables (so that they are not exposed on public repositories)
• all components are now functional components and use React Hooks

Installation

1. Create a new project using the firebase starter template.

npx create-react-native-app --template https://github.com/expo-community/expo-firebase-starter

2. Rename the file example.env to .env
3. Update .env with your own configuration, e.g.:

# Rename this file to ".env" before use
# Replace XXXX's with your own Firebase config keys
API_KEY=XXXX
AUTH_DOMAIN=XXXX
PROJECT_ID=XXXX
STORAGE_BUCKET=XXXX
MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=XXXX
APP_ID=XXXX

4. Start the project:

• yarn ios -- open on iOS
• yarn android -- open on Android

File Structure

Expo Firebase Starter
├── assets ➡️ All static assets, includes app logo
├── components ➡️ All re-suable UI components for form screens
│   └── Button.js ➡️ Custom Button component using Pressable, comes with two variants and handles opacity
│   └── TextInput.js ➡️ Custom TextInput component that supports left and right cons
│   └── Icon.js ➡️ Icon component
│   └── FormErrorMessage.js ➡️ Component to display server errors from Firebase
│   └── LoadingIndicator.js ➡️ Loading indicator component
│   └── Logo.js ➡️ Logo component
│   └── View.js ➡️ Custom View component that supports safe area views
├── hooks ➡️ All custom hook components
│   └── useTogglePasswordVisibility.js ➡️ A custom hook that toggles password visibility on a TextInput component on a confirm password field
├── config ➡️ All configuration files
│   └── firebase.js ➡️ Configuration file to initialize firebase with firebaseConfig and auth
│   └── images.js ➡️ Require image assets, reusable values across the app
│   └── theme.js ➡️ Default set of colors, reusable values across the app
├── providers ➡️ All custom providers that use React Context API
│   └── AuthenticatedUserProvider.js ➡️ An Auth User Context component that shares Firebase user object when logged-in
├── navigation
│   └── AppStack.js ➡️ Protected routes such as Home screen
│   └── AuthStack.js ➡️ Routes such as Login screen, when the user is not authenticated
│   └── RootNavigator.js ➡️ Switch between Auth screens and App screens based on Firebase user logged-in state
├── screens
│   └── ForgotPassword.js ➡️ Forgot Password screen component
│   └── HomeScreen.js ➡️ Protected route/screen component
│   └── LoginScreen.js ➡️ Login screen component
│   └── SignupScreen.js ➡️ Signup screen component
├── App.js ➡️ Entry Point for Mobile apps, wrap all providers here
├── app.config.js ➡️ Expo config file
└── babel.config.js ➡️ Babel config (should be using `babel-preset-expo`)

Screens

Main screens:

• Login
• Signup
• Forgot password
• Home (Bare Minimum) with a logout button

⚠️ Please Note

Expo uses Firebase Web SDK and does not support all Firebase services such as phone auth. If you are looking forward to use those services, please use react-native-firebase in a Expo bare project, or an Expo custom dev client or a plain React Native project.

Here is more on what and why Expo cannot support complete Firebase integration

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