Swift & Firebase - How to store more user data other than email and password?

Question

I'm relatively new to Firebase and trying to develop an app which requires users to give their name and surname in sign up page. But firebase createUserWithEmail method only stores email and password. How can I add this name and surname data to my app and link them with the users? I suppose i need to use FIRStorage but in that way, only options to saving information is saving either from NSData or NSURL, how can I save my name and surname strings?

Thanks in advance!

Edit1: I suppose i was wrong, I need to use real time database rather than storage to save user data. But still I need help. I am coming from Parse and this seems complicated.

Answer 1

Yes, you need to use the realtime database to store your user data. So after creating it you can call the setValue().

FIRAuth.auth()!.createUserWithEmail(email, password: pwd, completion: { authData, error  in
    if error == nil {    
        let userData = ["name": name,
                        "surname ": surname]
        let ref = FIRDatabase.database().reference()
        ref.child('users').child(authData!.uid).setValue(userData)
    } else {
        // handle error
    }
})