Using NodeJs with Firebase - Security

Question

Due to the need to do some server side code - mainly sending emails I have decided to use Nodejs & Express for the server side element along with Firebase to hold the da

Answer 1

The above seems like a roundabout way of doing things, I would use something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/connect-session-firebase and keep firebase as the model, handling all routes through express. Easier if your express server is rendering templates and not just behaving as a JSON API.