#shortcutstoangular

You can authenticate a user with the new Firebase email and password auth, but you are too lazy to dig through the new codebase to figure out how to create a user in the database on the returned promise? I was too and couldn’t find the answer until I stopped, regrouped, grabbed a beer, and read the new docs. 

This assumes your app is using the using firebase 3.0.4+ and angularfire 2.0.2+ with the new config apiKey, authDomain, databaseURL:

myApp.factory('Authentication',    ['$rootScope', '$firebaseObject', '$firebaseAuth',    function($rootScope, $firebaseObject, $firebaseAuth){

       var ref = firebase.database().ref();        var auth = $firebaseAuth();

       return {            login: function(user) {                $rootScope.message = "Welcome " + $scope.user.email;            }, //login

           register: function(user) {                var email = user.email,                    password = user.password;

               auth.$createUserWithEmailAndPassword(email, password).then(function(regUser) {

                   var regRef = ref.child('users/' + regUser.uid).set({                        date: firebase.database.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP,                         regUser: regUser.uid,                        firstname: user.firstname,                        lastname: user.lastname,                        email: user.email                    });

                   $rootScope.message = "Hi " + user.firstname +                    ", Thanks for registering";                }).catch(function(error) {                    $rootScope.message = error.message;                });            } //register        };

}]);