Accelerated Application Development using Firebase Authentication (Part 1)

How many times have you thought about finding a faster way to integrate user authentication, when you started a new project? Well, it's been quite a headache for me. Every time we encounter the authentication flow, we do more or less the same thing over and over again, and even after that, it feels like a lots of work. What if we could move the authentication flow entirely to a managed third party service? That way we could focus more on the crucial parts of our application. Guess what, Firebase authentication provides just that! Additionally, you are getting a managed service that is heavily scrutinized, complies with industry standards and on top of that it's entirely free.