Add a new user to a User's collection upon successful account creation

[heykc]

Description

Refactor the current signup auth function so that once the signup function successfully creates an account using the email and password, it then creates a "User" document that uses the uid of the auth user as the id of the new document, and includes two fields: an email and username field. This document should be sent to a 'Users' collection in our firestore.

Notes

The reasons we want to make a user document for every user is because Firebase does not allow you to 1) add supplementary data to a user auth account, meaning no biography, location, interests, etc. and; 2) find a user or list of users in the user auth collection. I assume this last one is just a general security reason as every auth account holds the user's password and admin roles.

Creating a separate users table that includes their username and email along with bios will allow us to find any use account without the risk of accessing the user's private data, and add supplementary information per user, along with other benefits that may come later

Acceptance Criteria

• signup modal should be able to pass a username, password, and username to the signup auth function when a user clicks the enabled submit button
• upon successful account creation, the signup method should then attempt to create a user document
  • document ID should be the user's auth uid
  • include the email and the username as fields within the document

Notes

You can learn more about the firebase auth api by reading the docs here You can also learn about firestore here

Related Links

blocked by #20 - A new user can fill in their signup information in the signup modal

[heykc]

@conorkenahan I'd like you to take the lead on this but I'd also like @JordyPena to shadow you while you work if that isn't too much to ask. This is to kind of get Jordy up to speed with Firebase and the backend side of this stuff. Coordinate some times that might work with both of you once @JordyPena finishes his task that will unblock this task.

[JordyPena]

Dope!!!!!! Let’s do it Connor

Best Wishes Jordy R Pena Montes

On Feb 2, 2021, at 9:07 PM, Keith Charles notifications@github.com wrote:

 @conorkenahan I'd like you to take the lead on this but I'd also like @JordyPena to shadow you while you work if that isn't too much to ask. This is to kind of get Jordy up to speed with Firebase and the backend side of this stuff. Coordinate some times that might work with both of you once @JordyPena finishes his task that will unblock this task.

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