OAuth & Social Login — Roadmap Step & Resources
Adding Google/GitHub login using OAuth2
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: MERN Stack
Before this step
Study resources
- An Introduction to OAuth 2 (Article) — DigitalOcean's widely-cited, clear introduction to how OAuth 2.0 actually works.
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect In Plain English (Video) — OktaDev's well-regarded, plain-English explanation of how OAuth 2.0 actually flows.
- The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework (Article) — The official OAuth community hub detailing authorization code grants, refresh tokens, and PKCE.
Part of
- Authentication & Security — section
- MERN Stack roadmap — the full learning path