--- title: What's new in AngularFire 1.2 | daily.dev description: AngularFire 1.2 adds dependency injection of Firebase references through the new $firebaseRefProvider, letting developers register Firebase URLs during the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-angularfire-1-2-0vouxv3w5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What's new in AngularFire 1.2 | daily.dev og:description: AngularFire 1.2 adds dependency injection of Firebase references through the new $firebaseRefProvider, letting developers register Firebase URLs during the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-angularfire-1-2-0vouxv3w5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0VOUxv3w5.png og:image:alt: What's new in AngularFire 1.2 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What's new in AngularFire 1.2 **[Firebase](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AngularFire 1.2 adds dependency injection of Firebase references through the new $firebaseRefProvider, letting developers register Firebase URLs during the config phase instead of instantiating Firebase objects with 'new', which improves testability. It also introduces $firebaseAuthService, a simplified authentication service that can automatically construct a $firebaseAuth service for use in route resolvers, removing the need to manually create one. The team notes they are simultaneously working on AngularFire 2 while continuing to support version 1. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I inject a Firebase reference into an AngularJS controller instead of using new Firebase()? AngularFire 1.2 adds the $firebaseRefProvider, which lets you register a Firebase URL during your app's config phase using $firebaseRefProvider.registerUrl(). Once registered, you inject $firebaseRef into controllers, services, or factories instead of calling new Firebase(url) directly, which decouples object construction from application logic and makes unit testing easier. _daily.dev surfaces framework release notes like this for developers modernizing legacy AngularJS and Firebase code._ ### How can I register multiple Firebase URLs in AngularFire? Pass a configuration object to $firebaseRefProvider.registerUrl() with named keys mapping to different URLs, such as a default root URL plus a messages URL pointing to a child path. A default property is required by convention since it points to the root URL and other keys can reference additional paths off that base. _Developers wiring up multi-path Firebase apps track library changes like this through daily.dev._ ### How do I set up authentication in an AngularFire route resolver without creating a custom $firebaseAuth service? AngularFire 1.2 introduces $firebaseAuthService, which automatically constructs a $firebaseAuth service once a URL is registered with $firebaseRefProvider. In a route's resolve block, you can call $firebaseAuthService.$waitForAuth() directly, removing the need to manually build your own $firebaseAuth instance for route-level authentication checks. _daily.dev helps developers stay current on library-specific auth patterns like this one._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Ultimate Angular Firebase Setup with AnalogJS](https://daily.dev/posts/ultimate-angular-firebase-setup-with-analogjs-axsdtce68) · Telerik · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Angular 22: The Evolution of Modern Angular](https://daily.dev/posts/angular-22-the-evolution-of-modern-angular-tpdetu6wa) · Telerik · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#angular](https://daily.dev/tags/angular), [#firebase](https://daily.dev/tags/firebase), [#dependency-injection](https://daily.dev/tags/dependency-injection) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-angularfire-1-2-0vouxv3w5) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What's new in AngularFire 1.2","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-angularfire-1-2-0vouxv3w5","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-angularfire-1-2-0vouxv3w5"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:20:31.231Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:31:20.898Z","description":"AngularFire 1.2 adds dependency injection of Firebase references through the new $firebaseRefProvider, letting developers register Firebase URLs during the...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ed721de96163685d26ab7e314be3ebc?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ed721de96163685d26ab7e314be3ebc?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Firebase","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Firebase","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--i395oqZH--/f_auto,q_auto/v1787487448/logos/firebase-blog?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-angularfire-1-2-0vouxv3w5","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"authentication,angular,firebase,dependency-injection","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Firebase","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What's new in AngularFire 1.2"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-angularfire-1-2-0vouxv3w5#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How do I inject a Firebase reference into an AngularJS controller instead of using new Firebase()?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"AngularFire 1.2 adds the $firebaseRefProvider, which lets you register a Firebase URL during your app's config phase using $firebaseRefProvider.registerUrl(). 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