Where does firebase save it's simple login users?
authentication, firebase, firebase-authentication, google-cloud-platform, rest-firebase
Solution
For most of the authentication protocols it supports, Firebase doesn't store user data anywhere. Even for the protocols where it does store data (I only know of email+password doing this), it stores this information in a place that your application can't access (though you can find those users in the dashboard of your Firebase).
To quote the Firebase documentation:
It does not store profile or user state in your Firebase. To persist user data you must save it to your Firebase.
What most applications end up doing, is keeping a list of users inside their Firebase that they manage themselves. So when a user first authenticates with the application, it creates a node under `/users/<uid>` that contains the information for that user.
See this section of the Firebase documentation that describes storing user data.
Problem
I am currently using `firebase` to make an `ionic app`. I am using `firebase simple login` for `social auth` (`facebook, twitter, email & password`). The auth works perfectly, it `$broadcasts` the `authed user`. However it doesn't seem to create a user in the actual `firebase db`. I was wondering how I can get the users that have been `authed` using my `app`.