FireBase authentication benefits

Question

This question might sound silly to some, my scenario was that i had to implement facebook login in my mobile app.

I added to my project:

1. Facebook SDK
2. Firebase authentication SDK
3. Implement both Facebook login and Firebase authentication mechanism for facebook.

Couldn't i just implement facebook SDK and implement the login?

I understand the benefit of receiving statistics about users and logins from different social networks in one place.

Are there more benefits i am missing?

Answer 1

You're most likely to use Firebase Authentication if you

• Use other Firebase products, which integrate with it. For example Cloud Firestore integrates with Firebase Authentication to provide a server-side security model, while allowing direct database access from the client.
• Use multiple providers, and want to link them together. Firebase Authentication allows accounts to be linked, so that a user ends up with one profile, no matter if they sign in with Facebook today, and with Google tomorrow.