The user is blocked on a splash screen if Firebase is not available

[danielpetisme]

What is the issue? My company is somehow blocking the access to firebase (via the corporate proxy I guess).

The consequence is that Firebase thinks the client is offline and the application get stuck on the splash screen (the 3 dots animation).

What is the expected behavior?

The easiest solution would be to display an error message to the user explaining that something wrong is happening on its network.

An offline mode could be considered to propose a degraded mode but in this context (with a corporate filtering that won't be updated anytime soon) I don't think it would make sense

What is your environment?

• OS: Tested on Mac and Windows
• Browser: Chrome