Setting up authentication with reactjs, firebase (google auth), react-router and redux.

The problem is very simple but I can't find any resource online or answers to fix it.

Unable to read roperty of uid (user id with firebase) because it's telling me it's undefined? I've set this up that Private routes is a new ponent and it's been imported in my app router. I also plan to have a public routes as well.

Here is my code along with screenshots of error.

PrivateRoute.js

import React from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { Route, Redirect } from 'react-router-dom';

export const PrivateRoute = (props) => (
    <Route {...props} />
  );

const mapStateToProps = (state) => ({
  isAuthenticated: !!state.auth.uid <-error on this uid
});

export default connect(mapStateToProps)(PrivateRoute);

AppRouter.js

import PrivateRoute from './PrivateRoute'

<Route path="/" ponent={Login} exact={true}/>
<PrivateRoute path="/dashboard" ponent={Dashboard} />
<PrivateRoute path="/create" ponent={AddExp}/>

Screenshot of error when I'm logged out and try accessing /create private route

Updated to add redux store configure file

import authenticationReducer from '../reducers/authentication'

export default () => {
    const store = createStore(
        bineReducers({
            expenses: expensesReducer,
            authentication: authenticationReducer
        }),
        poseEnhancers(applyMiddleware(thunk))
    );
    return store;
};

Auth reducer (just incase it's needed)

export default (state = {}, action) => {
    switch (action.type) {
        case 'LOGIN':
        return {
            uid: action.uid
        };
        case 'LOGOUT':
        return {

        };
        default:
        return state;
    }
};

Setting up authentication with reactjs, firebase (google auth), react-router and redux.

The problem is very simple but I can't find any resource online or answers to fix it.

Unable to read roperty of uid (user id with firebase) because it's telling me it's undefined? I've set this up that Private routes is a new ponent and it's been imported in my app router. I also plan to have a public routes as well.

Here is my code along with screenshots of error.

PrivateRoute.js

import React from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { Route, Redirect } from 'react-router-dom';

export const PrivateRoute = (props) => (
    <Route {...props} />
  );

const mapStateToProps = (state) => ({
  isAuthenticated: !!state.auth.uid <-error on this uid
});

export default connect(mapStateToProps)(PrivateRoute);

AppRouter.js

import PrivateRoute from './PrivateRoute'

<Route path="/" ponent={Login} exact={true}/>
<PrivateRoute path="/dashboard" ponent={Dashboard} />
<PrivateRoute path="/create" ponent={AddExp}/>

Screenshot of error when I'm logged out and try accessing /create private route

Updated to add redux store configure file

import authenticationReducer from '../reducers/authentication'

export default () => {
    const store = createStore(
        bineReducers({
            expenses: expensesReducer,
            authentication: authenticationReducer
        }),
        poseEnhancers(applyMiddleware(thunk))
    );
    return store;
};

Auth reducer (just incase it's needed)

export default (state = {}, action) => {
    switch (action.type) {
        case 'LOGIN':
        return {
            uid: action.uid
        };
        case 'LOGOUT':
        return {

        };
        default:
        return state;
    }
};

• javascript
• reactjs
• firebase-authentication

• 1 Going to need to see how you are setting auth in your store – Anthony Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 21:49
• One moment sorry – cala Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 21:49
• Thank you this worked! I could not see this... – cala Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 21:54
• I thought it might be a problem with firebase uid – cala Commented Mar 16, 2018 at 21:55

2 Answers 2

Cannot read property 'uid' of undefined - means you are trying something like variable.uid and variable is undefined. Based on the line with the error, state.auth is undefined.

You should be able to look at your state there, either debug or just throw a console.log in your mapStateToProps to see what your state actually looks like:

const mapStateToProps = (state) => {
  console.log('state:', state); // see what state is
  return {
    isAuthenticated: !!state.auth.uid <-error on this uid
  };
}

Looking at bineReducers is seems like you are putting the result of your authenticationReducer onto state.authentication, not state.auth...

bineReducers({
    expenses: expensesReducer,
    authentication: authenticationReducer
}),

You are setting the uid on state.authentication.uid and trying to access it from state.auth.uid