How do I detect if a user is already logged in Firebase

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I m using the firebase node api in my javascript files for Google login    firebase initializeApp config   let provider   new firebase auth GoogleAuthProvider    firebase auth   signInWithPopup provider     This works fine and the user is able to login with his Google credentials  When the user visits the page again  the popup opens again but since he has already logged in  the popup closes without requiring any interaction from the user  Is there any way to check if there is already a logged in user before prompting the popup

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There s no need to use onAuthStateChanged   function in this scenario   You can easily detect if the user is logged or not by executing   var user   firebase auth   currentUser    For those who face the  returning null  issue  it s just because you are not waiting for the firebase call to complete   Let s suppose you perform the login action on Page A and then you invoke Page B  on Page B you can call the following JS code to test the expected behavior     var config         apiKey              authDomain             databaseURL             projectId            storageBucket            messagingSenderId              firebase initializeApp config           document   ready function             console log   testing               var user   firebase auth   currentUser          console log user             If the user is logged then  var user  will contain the expected JSON payload  if not  then it will be just  null   And that s all you need    Regards

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First import the following   import Firebase import FirebaseAuth   Then          Check if logged in     if  Auth auth   currentUser    null             User is logged in         else           User is not logged in

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One another way is to use the same thing what firebase uses   For example when user logs in  firebase stores below details in local storage  When user comes back to the page  firebase uses the same method to identify if user should be logged in automatically     ATTN  As this is neither listed or recommended by firebase  You can call this method un-official way of doing this  Which means later if firebase changes their inner working  this method may not work  Or in short  Use at your own risk

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use Firebase getAuth    It returns the current state of the Firebase client  Otherwise the return value is nullHere are the docs  https   www firebase com docs web api firebase getauth html

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https   firebase google com docs auth web manage-users  You have to add an auth state change observer   firebase auth   onAuthStateChanged function user      if  user           User is signed in      else          No user is signed in

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This works   async function IsLoggedIn    Promise lt boolean gt      try       await new Promise  resolve  reject    gt        app auth   onAuthStateChanged          user   gt              if  user                   User is signed in              resolve user              else                  No user is signed in              reject  no user logged in                                     Prevent console error         error   gt  reject error                    return true     catch  error        return false

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You can also check if there is a currentUser  var user   firebase auth   currentUser   if  user         User is signed in    else        No user is signed in

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It is not possible to tell whether a user will be signed when a page starts loading  there is a work around though      You can memorize last auth state to localStorage to persist it between sessions and between tabs    Then  when page starts loading  you can optimistically assume the user will be re-signed in automatically and postpone the dialog until you can be sure  ie after onAuthStateChanged fires   Otherwise  if the localStorage key is empty  you can show the dialog right away   The firebase onAuthStateChanged event will fire roughly 2 seconds after a page load      User signed out in previous session  show dialog immediately because there will be no auto-login if   localStorage getItem  myPage expectSignIn    showDialog      or redirect to sign-in page  firebase auth   onAuthStateChanged user   gt      if  user           User just signed in  we should not display dialog next time because of firebase auto-login     localStorage setItem  myPage expectSignIn    1       else          User just signed-out or auto-login failed  we will show sign-in form immediately the next time he loads the page     localStorage removeItem  myPage expectSignIn           Here implement logic to trigger the login dialog or redirect to sign-in page  if necessary  Don t redirect if dialog is already visible         e g  showDialog              I am using this with React and react-router  I put the code above into componentDidMount of my App root component  There  in the render  I have some PrivateRoutes   lt Router gt     lt Switch gt       lt PrivateRoute       exact path  routes DASHBOARD        component  pages Dashboard        gt        And this is how my PrivateRoute is implemented   export default function PrivateRoute props      return firebase auth   currentUser    null        lt Route     props   gt        localStorage getItem  myPage expectSignIn            if user is expected to sign in automatically  display Spinner  otherwise redirect to login page           lt Spinner centered size  400   gt                     lt  gt            Redirecting to sign in page              location replace   login from   props path               lt   gt                    Using router Redirect instead of location replace         lt Redirect          from  props path           to   pathname  routes SIGN IN  state   from  props path             gt

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If you are allowing anonymous users as well as those logged in with email you can use firebase auth   currentUser isAnonymous  which will return either true or false

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