Understanding and Implementing OAuth2 In Node.js

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It's important to know that this far, although you can perfectly build your OAuth2 server from scratch using frameworks, such as the node-oauth2-server, we'll make use of GitHub's capabilities for the sake of simplicity.

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So, let's create a new application by clicking this link. Make sure to fill in all the fields, as shown in the image below:

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const express = require("express"); const axios = require("axios"); var cors = require("cors"); const CLIENT_ID = ""; const CLIENT_SECRET = ""; const GITHUB_URL = "https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token"; const app = express(); app.use(cors({ credentials: true, origin: true })); app.get("/oauth/redirect", (req, res) => { axios({ method: "POST", url: `${GITHUB_URL}?client_id=${CLIENT_ID}&client_secret=${CLIENT_SECRET}&code=${req.query.code}`, headers: { Accept: "application/json", }, }).then((response) => { res.redirect( `http://localhost:3000?access_token=${response.data.access_token}` ); }); }); const PORT = 8080; app.listen(PORT, () => { console.log(`Listening at port ${PORT}`); });

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For this article, we'll be using Node.js, and Yarn as the default package manager. Node is on version v12.21.0 to be specific. However, most of the versions higher than 10 should work just fine.

• oauth2-with-node-js

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You may find the source code for this tutorial here.

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