DEV Community

Setting up Social Logins(Google + Microsoft) with Node.js and Passport.js

Asim on October 07, 2020

Before diving into code, let's first briefly discuss what the heck is Oauth? What is Oauth: OAuth(or Open Authorization) is one of the ...

Read full post

Comment deleted

Comment hidden by post author - thread only accessible via permalink

wiatr.dev • Oct 9 '20

I'd be very thankfull 😅

Brian McBride • Oct 11 '20

The OAuth developer view is great.

I will say that if you want to go ultra simple, Google still offers Firebase Auth for pretty much free. It doesn't mean you need to use GCP for all your services either. And it although it isn't perfect, you can't beat it for the price anywhere.

Asim • Oct 12 '20

Thanks for the feedback.
I agree with that as I have used firebase social auth in some personal projects which is pretty easy to setup. Though I feel, with so many frameworks and libraries out there the level of abstraction has increased significantly and at times some of us get lost in setting things up from scratch and knowing how the thing actually works under the hood.
I just shared the minimal barebone of setting things up with Node, and even passport could have been avoided here to keep it more basic.

Oren Zbeda • Dec 5 '21 • Edited

Hi,

This is a lot of work.
I created this: github.com/orenz/azauth
It will allow social login in about 3 lines of code (really).

Also did a short video explainer.
youtu.be/5WehZTrgG8o

Hope you like.

Arifa • Feb 12 '21

Hello Asim,

I have used the same library to provide Microsoft verification. I am able to fetch the profile of a user, but my application checks the passport verification again and the application crashes. Did you face the same problem with Microsoft verification?

Asim • Feb 12 '21

Hey Arifa,
Is the redirection URL the same in both the application and Microsoft portal?
If this true, check for these keys in the manifest file (found under AppRegistration, Manifest tab)
"accessTokenAcceptedVersion" : 2
"signInAudience" : "AzureADandPersonalMicrosoftAccount"
I did face an issue because of this and setting this to the above values fixed it.
Relevant Resources:
docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/act...
docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/act...