Firebase-tools: Suppress auth emulator warning message

[motiejunas]

Is there any way to suppress _"WARNING: You are using the Auth Emulator, which is intended for local testing only. Do not use with production credentials."_ message?

This is really annoying when working with Chrome extensions that it is considered as an error.

[samtstern]

@motiejunas thank for the feedback, you're not the first one to tell us the warning banner is annoying although right now it's there because we are trying to be as cautious as possible about security.

Can you explain a little more about how this affects Chrome Extensions? I'm not familiar with that issue.

[motiejunas]

@motiejunas thank for the feedback, you're not the first one to tell us the warning banner is annoying although right now it's there because we are trying to be as cautious as possible about security.

Can you explain a little more about how this affects Chrome Extensions? I'm not familiar with that issue.

Basically any console.error/console.warn renders this "Errors" button:

In a normal development routine, I do not see this button and if I see - I have to inspect and check what went wrong with the extension. Now, I have to repeat the same (inspect) every single time to check if this is any real problem or this is just a silly warning.

So it would be really cool to pass some extra flag to mute warnings.

[samtstern]

@motiejunas thanks for explaining! Sounds like we should switch to console.log or console.info then.

[Joebayld]

What about the HTML overlay that happens on the webpage? Is there an API to not show this?

[samtstern]

@Joebayld there's no API to hide that right now, but we're working on providing some sort of option! For now you can hopefully hide it with custom css.

[smhmd]

@samtstern In my use case, playing with the auth emulator, the warn and banner started messing up my testing.

[akauppi]

@Joebayld I did a global CSS that hides that message, in development.

[samtstern]

We're working on adding a flag to the useEmulator API to allow you to hide this warning, hopefully coming soon!

[nickmarca]

What does it want to mean by "Do not use with production credentials" though ? Should I use any different firebaseConfig when using the emulator ?

[samtstern]

@nickmarca it means don't type in your real password or anything else sensitive since it's going to be exposed over http when traveling to the emulator.