June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1083 pages
22h 12m
English
Now that we finally have a fully-featured, JWT-based internal authentication provider, we can start thinking about supporting other login alternatives. Hooking up some external authentication providers such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter will undoubtedly please our users and increase our application's overall appeal.
Luckily enough, AspNetCore.Identity comes bundled with a built-in set of middleware classes for the most used OAuth2 providers that will simplify each of these tasks.
Before we start, let's do a quick recap of how the OAuth2 authorization flow actually works:

This, in short, ...
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