graphql-engine/community/boilerplates/auth-webhooks/nodejs-firebase

Sample Auth Webhook with Firebase for Hasura GraphQL engine

This is a sample auth webhook for Hasura which forwards requests to Firebase auth and transforms the response.

Quick deploy

Deploy with Heroku (recommended)

Run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
cp -r graphql-engine/community/boilerplates/auth-webhooks/nodejs-express <some-dir>
cd <some-dir>
git init && git add . && git commit -m "init auth webhook"

You need to setup a Heroku app:

heroku apps:create
git push heroku master

Once it is deployed, go to Manage App > Settings of your app and set the following environment variables for Firebase:

• FIREBASE_CONFIG: Copy the contents of your serviceAccount JSON file for this field. Example:

     {
       "type": "service_account",
       "project_id": "testapp-2222",
       "private_key_id": "f02aca08952f702de43ed577b428f405efe2d377",
       "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n<your-private-key>\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
       "client_email": "firebase-adminsdk-t4sik@testapp-24a60.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
       "client_id": "113608616484852272199",
       "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
       "token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
       "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
       "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/firebase-adminsdk-t4sik%40testapp-22222.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
     }
  

Deploy using Now

Run the following commands to deploy using Now.

git clone https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
cd graphql-engine/community/boilerplates/auth-webhooks/nodejs-express
npm install -g now
now -e \
FIREBASE_CONFIG='{
        "type": "service_account",
        "project_id": "testapp-2222",
        "private_key_id": "f02aca08952f702de43ed577b428f405efe2d377",
        "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n<your-private-key>\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
        "client_email": "firebase-adminsdk-t4sik@testapp-24a60.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
        "client_id": "113608616484852272199",
        "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
        "token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
        "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
        "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/firebase-adminsdk-t4sik%40testapp-22222.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
      }'

Deploy with Glitch

1. Click the following button to edit on glitch

   

2. Add the following environment variables in the .env file on glitch.

   FIREBASE_CONFIG='{
     "type": "service_account",
     "project_id": "testapp-2222",
     "private_key_id": "f02aca08952f702de43ed577b428f405efe2d377",
     "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n<your-private-key>\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
     "client_email": "firebase-adminsdk-t4sik@testapp-24a60.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
     "client_id": "113608616484852272199",
     "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
     "token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
     "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
     "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/firebase-adminsdk-t4sik%40testapp-22222.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
   }'
   

Usage with Hasura GraphQL engine

Once you have deployed this webhook, you can use it along with the GraphQL engine. You have to set the webhook URL as an environment variable in the docker container that runs the GraphQL engine.

Read the docs.

Firebase

Send the firebase id_token as a header while making queries to the graphql-engine.

{
  "Authorization": "Bearer <id_token>"
}