Adding authentication

Authentication systems can easily get extremely complex. From homegrown systems, complete with custom user management screens, to sophisticated single sign-on solutions, we have a lot of options. One of the more popular options is OAuth2, and there are a number of options. For Monumentum, we'll implement sign in using Google. To do that, we need to create an application in Google's Developer Console, which can be found at https://console.developers.google.com.

Once you've logged in, click on the project dropdown at the top of page and click on Create Project, which should present this screen to you:

Provide Project Name ...

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