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Webflow + Firebase user authentication
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README.md

Webflow + Firebase user authentication

You can find a demo at https://webflow-authentication.webflow.io/sign-up.

1. Set up Firebase authentication

Log in to Firebase console. Create a new app and from the left side menu, under Develop, navigate to Authentication. Enable Email/Password sign-in provider. After this, create a Web application under the current Firebase project and copy the given firebaseConfig object.

2. Create Webflow pages

Go to the project settings and Custom Code tab. Add content from webflow-custom-code-before-body.html gist file to Footer Code input. Replace webflowAuth.firebaseConfig with the one you copied in the previous step. After this go to designer and create 3 new pages:

  1. /user page which is meant for logged in users.
  2. /log-in page which is used for logging in.
  3. /sign-up page which is used for signing up.

On /sign-up page, create a form and inside it add a submit button plus two input fields - email and password. Then do the following adjustments:

  1. Give form element (form element inside form, Form > Form) custom data attribute called data-signup-form.
  2. Give email field custom data attribute called data-signup-email.
  3. Give password field custom data attribute called data-signup-password.
  4. Give form error element custom data attribute called data-signup-error.
  5. Add custom data attribute called data-user-unauth to the body element.

On /log-in page, create a form and inside it add a submit button plus two input fields - email and password. Then do the following adjustments:

  1. Give form element (form element inside form, Form > Form) custom data attribute called data-login-form.
  2. Give email field custom data attribute called data-login-email.
  3. Give password field custom data attribute called data-login-password.
  4. Give form error element custom data attribute called data-login-error.
  5. Add custom data attribute called data-user-unauth to the body element.

On /user page add custom data attribute called data-user-auth to the body element. In addition to this, you can show any user properties returned from Firebase by giving an element custom data attribute called data-user. After this you can use user properties with curly bracets i.e. Your email is {{email}}.

If you have a navigation element from which you can navigate to /log-in, /sign-up etc. pages, you can adjust their visibility by using custom data attributes called data-user-auth and data-user-unauth. You can also add either one of those data attributes to body element which will adjust visibility of the given page. Log out button can be created by giving a link element a custom data attribute called data-logout.

3. Credits

Some of the ideas are taken from the YouTube video series by Jason Dark which you can find at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30AIpEnsEaQ&list=PL4TuDUnZkkhzSwfbFj6EJjxim6218ORc0.

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webflow-custom-code-before-body.html
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/8.1.1/firebase-app.js"></script>
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/8.1.1/firebase-analytics.js"></script>
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/8.1.1/firebase-auth.js"></script>
<script>
var webflowAuth = {
loginPath: '/log-in',
loginRedirectPath: '/user',
signupPath: '/sign-up',
signupRedirectPath: '/user',
logoutRedirectPath: '/',
firebaseConfig: {
apiKey: "",
authDomain: "",
databaseURL: "",
projectId: "",
storageBucket: "",
messagingSenderId: "",
appId: "",
measurementId: ""
}
};
</script>
<!-- you can replace this with the content from webflow-firebase-user-authentication.js -->
<script src="webflow-firebase-user-authentication.js"></script>
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webflow-firebase-user-authentication.js
/*
Example config
var webflowAuth = {
loginPath: '/log-in',
loginRedirectPath: '/user',
signupPath: '/sign-up',
signupRedirectPath: '/user',
logoutRedirectPath: '/',
firebaseConfig: {
apiKey: "",
authDomain: "",
databaseURL: "",
projectId: "",
storageBucket: "",
messagingSenderId: "",
appId: "",
measurementId: ""
}
};
*/
firebase.initializeApp(webflowAuth.firebaseConfig);
firebase.analytics && firebase.analytics();
{
var user;
var bodyAuth = document.body.getAttribute('data-user-auth');
var bodyUnauth = document.body.getAttribute('data-user-unauth');
var userAuth = document.querySelectorAll('[data-user-auth]');
var userUnauth = document.querySelectorAll('[data-user-unauth]');
var userDisplayName = document.querySelectorAll('[data-user-displayName]');
var userEmail = document.querySelectorAll('[data-user-email]');
var userContent = document.querySelectorAll('[data-user]');
userAuth.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
userUnauth.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
function updateContent() {
if (!user) {
return;
}
userContent.forEach(function(el) {
el.innerText = el.innerText.replace(/\{\{([^\}]+)\}\}/g, function(match, variable) {
return typeof user[variable] === 'undefined' ? '' : user[variable];
});
});
}
firebase.auth().onAuthStateChanged(function(authUser) {
user = authUser;
updateContent();
if (user && bodyUnauth) {
window.location.href = webflowAuth.loginRedirectPath;
} else if (!user && bodyAuth) {
window.location.href = webflowAuth.loginPath;
}
if (user) {
userAuth.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = null; });
userUnauth.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
userEmail.forEach(function(el) { el.innerText = user.email; });
userDisplayName.forEach(function(el) { el.innerText = user.displayName; });
} else {
userAuth.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
userUnauth.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = null; });
userEmail.forEach(function(el) { el.innerText = ''; });
userDisplayName.forEach(function(el) { el.innerText = ''; });
}
});
var signupForms = document.querySelectorAll('[data-signup-form]');
var signupErrors = document.querySelectorAll('[data-signup-error]');
var signupLoading = document.querySelectorAll('[data-signup-loading]');
var signupIdle = document.querySelectorAll('[data-signup-idle]');
signupForms.forEach(function(el) {
var signupEmail = el.querySelector('[data-signup-email]');
var signupPassword = el.querySelector('[data-signup-password]');
el.addEventListener('submit', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
signupErrors.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
signupLoading.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'block'; });
signupIdle.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
firebase.auth().createUserWithEmailAndPassword(signupEmail.value, signupPassword.value)
.then(function(authUser) {
user = authUser;
window.location.href = webflowAuth.signupRedirectPath;
})
.catch(function(error) {
signupErrors.forEach(function(el) {
el.innerText = error.message;
el.style.display = 'block';
});
setTimeout(function() {
signupLoading.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
signupIdle.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = null; });
}, 1000);
});
});
});
var loginForms = document.querySelectorAll('[data-login-form]');
var loginErrors = document.querySelectorAll('[data-login-error]');
var loginLoading = document.querySelectorAll('[data-login-loading]');
var loginIdle = document.querySelectorAll('[data-login-idle]');
loginForms.forEach(function(el) {
var loginEmail = el.querySelector('[data-login-email]');
var loginPassword = el.querySelector('[data-login-password]');
el.addEventListener('submit', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
loginErrors.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
loginIdle.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
loginLoading.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'block'; });
firebase.auth().signInWithEmailAndPassword(loginEmail.value, loginPassword.value)
.then(function(authUser) {
user = authUser;
window.location.href = webflowAuth.loginRedirectPath;
})
.catch(function(error) {
loginErrors.forEach(function(el) {
el.innerText = error.message;
el.style.display = 'block';
});
setTimeout(function() {
loginIdle.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = null; });
loginLoading.forEach(function(el) { el.style.display = 'none'; });
}, 1000);
});
});
});
var authLogout = document.querySelectorAll('[data-logout]');
authLogout.forEach(function(el) {
el.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
firebase.auth().signOut().then(function() {
user = null;
window.location.href = webflowAuth.logoutRedirectPath;
})
.catch(function() {});
});
})
}
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bossdown123 commented Feb 9, 2022

anyone know how to use firestore to display specific user data

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tuckeralford commented Feb 10, 2022

@tunnela I'm stuck on adding the custom attributes in Webflow. It looks lik I have everything configured correctly in the frontend, but nothing is functioning. Any help would be sweet!

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Thanks so much!

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tunnela commented Feb 11, 2022

@bossdown123 you can checkout my WIP example at https://webflow-authentication-v2.webflow.io where I use Firestore to save user information!

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tunnela commented Feb 11, 2022

@tuckeralford I can't help much without seeing the website and its HTML/JS source code.

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truereflectionmedia commented Feb 24, 2022

It works great thank you for this. One part I'm not clear on why use Forms and forEach instead of a single form. I'm using this with a popup form. just curious.

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arnotventures commented Apr 12, 2022

I noticed all of the API information is exposed.. is that an issue?

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truereflectionmedia commented Apr 12, 2022

Arno the API is designed that way, you lock it down in google console. Also within firebase if using the firestore you create security rules.

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biniam-ux commented Jan 23, 2023

Thanks @tunnela for the post. I've managed to create gated access using firebase auth!
also thanks to @osamaaliarshad for the 'forgot password" part, that waas great too!

my little contribution will be a "delete user" functionality, that allow user to delete their account from firebase when logged in (if anyone need it):

var deleteAccountButton = document.querySelector("#delete-account-button"); deleteAccountButton.addEventListener("click", function () { firebase .auth() .currentUser.delete() .then(function () { // User deleted. }) .catch(function (error) { // An error occurred. }); });

btw, does anyone know as way to send user data (such as name, surname) to firebase firestore database for each individual user? that will be dope!

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Opsje commented Jun 15, 2023

Has anyone been able to get it working with firebase version 9?

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