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ASP.NET Core: Cloud-ready, Enterprise Web Application Development
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ASP.NET Core: Cloud-ready, Enterprise Web Application Development

by Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi, Valerio De Sanctis, James Singleton
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1083 pages
22h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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External authentication providers

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.

OAuth2 authorization flow

Before we start, let's do a quick recap of how the OAuth2 authorization flow actually works:

OAuth2 authorization flow

This, in short, ...

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