Securing Your Application with OAuth and Passport

By Jonathan Mills
In this course, we will cover OAuth authentication with Google, Twitter, and Facebook. We will also use tokens to make authentic API calls.
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 8, 2015
Duration
2h 24m
Table of contents
Introduction
Introduction 2m What Is OAuth Anyway? 7m Setting up Our Environment 6m Summary 1m
Sign in with Google
Introduction 1m Setting up Passport Middleware 7m Finding a Google Strategy 2m Using the Google Strategy 4m Setting up Your App with the Google Console 6m Setting up Our Auth Routes 6m Creating Our Views 11m Summary 2m
Adding in More Providers
Introduction 1m Setting Our Code Up for Multiple Strategies 5m Securing Routes 2m Creating a User Object 4m Adding Twitter 11m Testing Twitter 4m Adding Facebook 9m Summary 2m
Calling OAuth Providers
Introduction 1m Saving Our User to MongoDB 10m Tying Our Providers Together 9m The Graph API and Our Facebook Service 8m Consuming Our Facebook Service 12m Consuming the Twitter API 10m Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jul 8, 2015
Duration
2h 24m
Description

Passport.js is a simple and easy to use package that will manage OAuth authentication for you using strategies. In this course, we will work though how to use Passport to sign in to a website with Google, Twitter, and Facebook. We will discuss combining multiple social media accounts into one user account stored in a MongoDB database. We will finish by using tokens to make authenticated API calls out to Twitter and Facebook.

About the author
Jonathan Mills
About the author

Jonathan is a Pluralsight Author, Technology Advisor, and Business Leader. As a member of the Chief Digital Advisory team at World Wide Technology, Jonathan is able to leverage his unique experiences and skills to drive digital transformation for his clients. As a dedicated developer community leader, Jonathan serves on the board of directors for the Kansas City Developers Conference, is a Microsoft MVP, and is a regular speaker and keynote presenter at conferences around the globe.

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