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Pro MERN Stack: Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express, React, and Node
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Pro MERN Stack: Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express, React, and Node

by Vasan Subramanian
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
552 pages
14h 55m
English
Apress
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© Vasan Subramanian 2019
Vasan SubramanianPro MERN Stackhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4391-6_14

14. Authentication

Vasan Subramanian1 
(1)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

Most applications need to identify and authenticate users. Instead of creating a custom sign-up and authentication mechanism, we’ll integrate with one of the social sign-ins. We’ll only implement one (Google Sign-In for Websites). This will serve as a good example for other integrations, since it uses the OAuth2 mechanism, which most other authentication integrations also use.

We’ll make it so that users can view all information without signing in, but in order to make any change, they will have to sign in. We’ll use a modal dialog that lets the user sign in with Google from anywhere ...

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