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reauthenticateWithCredential() function

Re-authenticates a user using a fresh credential.

Signature:

export declare function reauthenticateWithCredential(user: User, credential: AuthCredential): Promise<UserCredential>;

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
user	User	The user.
credential	AuthCredential	The auth credential.

Returns:

Promise<UserCredential>

Description

Use before operations such as updatePassword() that require tokens from recent sign-in attempts. This method can be used to recover from a CREDENTIAL_TOO_OLD_LOGIN_AGAIN error.