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# Email Sign In by Firebase

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To use Sign In, you will need to first create your own Firebase account and project
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## Getting Started

### Create your free [Firebase](https://firebase.google.com/) account and create a new project

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### Enable Email / Password Sign in

In the Firebase console, navigate to Authentication and the tab "Sign-In Method". Enable Email/Password as shown below.

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### Connect your Firebase Account with Thunkable

There are two properties that you need to retrieve from Firebase to connect it with Thunkable which are both retrievable from the Firebase console: `API key` and `database URL`

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`API key` and `database URL`

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### (Optional) Modify the email template you send to verify your users' emails

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## Using the Sign In Component in your App

Click on the Sign In drawer of blocks to access the Sign In blocks.

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## Sign up

The first step for users is to Sign Up with their email address and a password. They will be sent an email to verify the address that they provided.&#x20;

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| Event                           | Description                                                                                                                                                       |
| ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Sign up ( `email`, `password)`) | Signs up a user for a new account. Returns an `error` if sign up is not successful. A common `error` is "The email address is already in use by another account." |

Here is an example of using this block:

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## Sign in

This block will sign a user in and return their user ID.

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| Name            | Data Type  | Data                                                              |
| --------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| error           | Text       | If error, returns error; else, returns `null`                     |
| userId          | Text       | Returns unique ID for each account                                |
| isEmailVerified | True/False | If email has been verified, returns `true`; else, returns `false` |

When the user's email and password have been stored locally, the following blocks can be used to sign the user in with these details automatically.

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## Sign Out

Signs the user out.

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## Reset Password

Send an email to the specified email address to reset their password

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## Manage User Access

On the Firebase console, navigate to the Users tab under Authentication and you'll find a dashboard where you can reset a user's password, disable and delete their accounts.

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