Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Implementing social login

For our first example, we'll use Twitter as our third-party authentication provider. If you want to follow along with the example you will need a Twitter account, which is very quick to set up.

Setting up a Twitter application

In order for Twitter to recognize our application, we need to create a new app in Twitter's developer portal:

1. Visit https://apps.twitter.com/ and click on Create New App.
2. Fill in the Name, Description, Website, and Callback URL fields:
   • If you've deployed your application to Heroku, you can use its Heroku URL here
   • Otherwise, just fill in placeholder values for both fields (for example, http://test.example.com/callback)
3. Click on Create your Twitter application.
4. Click on the Settings tab and ensure that