OAuth 2 in Action

Chapter 16. Summary and conclusions

Congratulations, you made it all the way through this book! We hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as we did writing it. We covered quite a lot of material on our trip, as OAuth isn’t a simplistic protocol and there are many moving pieces and a variety of ways to put them together. This seems daunting at first, but we hope that now that you’re armed with the knowledge of how everything works, you can see that it’s as simple as possible but no simpler. We hope that what you’ve learned while building all the moving pieces of OAuth with us will guide you in your future expeditions. In this final chapter, we’re going to take a few pages to talk about the bigger picture.

16.1. The right tool

OAuth is a powerful ...