A Google Login isn't as drastic as it used to be. From the FAQ:<p>> I don't have an existing Google account and I don't want to sign up for Gmail, Google+, or any other Google services. What should I do?<p>It is easy to create a Google account for any existing email address without tying it to any Google services. It will only be used for identification and login. You can sign up for this "slimmed down" Google account here. You can also create this type of Google account via the existing migration flow on firebase.com.
Context: Firebase was bought by Google in 2014[1]<p>[1] <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/google-acquires-firebase-to-help-developers-build-better-realtime-apps/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/google-acquires-firebase-to...</a>
This only means that the developers have to login with a Google account? Firebase is a Google-owned product, so why would that be a surprise? It doesn't sound like your app's users have to login with Google.<p>Edit: if you don't want someone telling you how to login, maybe check out Kinto?<p><a href="http://kinto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html" rel="nofollow">http://kinto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html</a>
I didn't know about this: <a href="https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail" rel="nofollow">https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail</a>
Firebase has stagnated for quite some time now. Months ago I mailed them about Twitter now allowing email addresses in their Auth but Firebase has yet to catch up. This means you cannot get email addresses of users signing up via Twitter. They suggested I manually ask the user to type it in, which obviously defeats the purpose of OAuth.<p>A request has been pending for over a year to add the client IP in their ServerValue response which is a common security ask but the boilerplate response of we're working on it has got no traction.<p>They still don't have a password reset email template so you must use the forgot pass template.<p>Even so, their forgot password mail adds the username in the URL. If like me, you use the email address as the username this won't work. That's because they don't encode the email address in the URL. I brought this up months ago, they acknowledged the bug and then suggested I manually ask the user to type it in. This still doesn't work.<p>There were some other issues but I gave up on the service.
I really hope that the next generation of companies founded and run by people who grew up being on the other side will refrain from making this kind of decisions.
I think it is pretty fucked up that google is bundling their free email, storage and suite of office products with their free/low cost nosql database.<p>There just aren't any noSQL options out there right now.