NestJS Passport Strategy for Firebase Auth using Firebase Admin SDK

Installation

Install peer dependencies

npm install passport passport-jwt
npm install --save-dev @types/passport-jwt

Install @nestjs/passport for authentication

npm install @nestjs/passport

Install strategy

npm install @tfarras/nestjs-firebase-auth

Important

To work with Firebase Auth you need to configure and initialize your firebase app. For this purpose you can use my module for firebase-admin.

Create strategy

import { Injectable } from "@nestjs/common";
import { PassportStrategy } from "@nestjs/passport";
import { ExtractJwt } from 'passport-jwt';
import { FirebaseAuthStrategy } from '@tfarras/nestjs-firebase-auth';

@Injectable()
export class FirebaseStrategy extends PassportStrategy(FirebaseAuthStrategy, 'firebase') {
  public constructor() {
    super({
      extractor: ExtractJwt.fromAuthHeaderAsBearerToken(),
    });
  }
}

Note: You should provide an extractor. More information about passport-jwt extractors you can find here: http://www.passportjs.org/packages/passport-jwt/#included-extractors

Create AuthModule and provide created strategy

import { Module } from "@nestjs/common";
import { PassportModule } from "@nestjs/passport";
import { FirebaseStrategy } from "./firebase.strategy";

@Module({
  imports: [PassportModule],
  providers: [FirebaseStrategy],
  exports: [FirebaseStrategy],
  controllers: [],
})
export class AuthModule { }

Import AuthModule into AppModule

import { FirebaseAdminCoreModule } from '@tfarras/nestjs-firebase-admin';
import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import { ConfigModule, ConfigService } from 'nestjs-config';
import { AppController } from './app.controller';
import { AppService } from './app.service';
import { AuthModule } from './auth/auth.module';
import * as path from 'path';

@Module({
  imports: [
    ConfigModule.load(path.resolve(__dirname, 'config', '**', '!(*.d).{ts,js}')),
    FirebaseAdminCoreModule.forRootAsync({
      useFactory: (config: ConfigService) => config.get('firebase'),
      inject: [ConfigService],
    }),
    AuthModule,
  ],
  controllers: [AppController],
  providers: [AppService],
})
export class AppModule { }