In fact your using the right approach as you also benefit from the Firebase infrastructure with the added functionalities as stated on its introductory page <https://firebase.google.com/>.
Now, the provided tutorial by Renaud is an excellent example of assembling an app according to your first configuration. You may want to look at the Authenticating users on the server section <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/authenticating-users-firebase-appengine#authenticating_users_on_the_server> for more details on how your Ionic app would interact with the App Engine server. It is explained that once your users are signed-in via the added Firebase Authentication <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/authenticating-users-firebase-appengine#adding_the_firebase_authentication_user_interface> user interface (on your Ionic app), the communication between the app and the server is handled by tokens as described here <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/authenticating-users-firebase-appengine#verifying_tokens_on_the_server> . The second approach is also possible, but you will have to implement your own authentication mechanism and use a similar application framework as Flask, which the provided tutorial application is already based on. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/3328960f-7447-48a3-a41d-a5092ba16165%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
