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emailLinkSignIn not working

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
authentication, frontend

Research direction

Start at the StyledFirebaseAuth entry point and reproduce the flow with firebaseAuthConfig.emailLinkSignIn.url set, comparing it with the working configuration without emailLinkSignIn. Trace whether clicking the email link invokes signInSuccessWithAuthResult and confirm that the user is signed in and redirected to the configured URL.

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Description

When setting firebaseAuthConfig (to be given to StyledFirebaseAuth), if emailLinkSignIn
is set and url inside it is defined, the sign-in is not successful, in the sense that clicking the email link won't sign the user in (and the signInSuccessWithAuthResult callback is not invoked --- this is where I set cookies and only if the cookies are set can a user be identified as having signed in). If I don't set emailLinkSignIn then everything is working fine.

What could be the problem, and how could it be fixed?

P.S. Just a note that when I have emailLinkSignIn set, I do see the url is visited but somehow the sign-in is not successful.

Another note: if I'm already signed-in, then including emailLinkSignIn and going through a new sign-in (an email is entered, the link is clicked) will send me to the url inside emailLinkSignIn successfully.

Updated: I've found out that if url points back the auth (it's where I ask for the emails) then it will be a success. I don't understand the current behaviour or if I'm using it correctly. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

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