How to make Firebase Functions act as a user instead of being an admin?

Question

My client app is accessing to Firestore through API created by Firebase Functions. However, the Firebase Functions imports firebase-admin which bypass all the d

Answer 1

There is currently no way to do this. The Firestore SDK for node doesn't have a way of scoping its access to the database as a particular authenticated user.

Note that this is different than the Realtime Database SDK, which does allow you to scope to a uid.