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19 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read

Got so close to working Firebase support in useAuth last night I can almost smell it 🤞

here's a recap 🧵

swizec.com/blog/codewiths…

@tannerlinsley

We finished the stream with a broken flow. A callback doesn't callback, very strange.

And we found that Firebase is "hot garbage" as @tannerlinsley called it. Confusing API, strange docs, odd types.

https://twitter.com/Swizec/status/1351367255095820291

Worst part of working with Firebase is Google's SEO.

Paste error into Google, get the docs. Docs don't even mention the error. 🙊

BUT! Blogging is a great rubber ducky. While writing the recap, I discovered that callbacks must be passed in a callbacks: {} prop.

Why? Who knows. Google reasons 🤷‍♀️

Login works 🤘 next step improving #useAuth's API

Why the heck does FirebaseUI look like that 👆 despite adding 64kB to your payload

Styles come separate? What happened to the "you must make everything small and fast or we will de-seo you" mantra?

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