User authentication

[jbinvnt]

We should be able to designate API requests as requiring authentication. This could be either a single API key or a username/password pair. Users must then send their credentials with requests that require it.

cURL has the -u flag and axios can set the auth property in its configuration.

[abhinavtripathy]

@jbinvnt I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to integrate firebase auth with this project: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth. This would allow OAuth login methods such as login with facebook/github, github in particular might be useful for us to store in the database.

[jbinvnt]

@abhinavtripathy That's definitely an option we can consider. I've used Firebase's authentication system before and to me it's intuitive. I also haven't learned yet about the traditional method of adding OAuth to a website. However a downside of Firebase is that then our users would need to create their own project in the Firebase Console in order to use something like GitHub login.