Adds support to logging into Forem with Facebook Oauth. We're only using the Omniauth Facebook provider, not Facebook's SDK. In addition: only the bare minimum amount of information is requested from Facebook, so no app review is required on their end (and we limit the amount of user data that we're asking for). Included is:
The main difference in our approach is that we have a "one to many" correspondence between a user and the preferred login method. Something we call Identity. Thus a user can have a Twitter identity, a GitHub identity and so on.
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Nice article Mbonu, such a coincidence BTW :-)
@joshpuetz has been working on adding optional Facebook authentication support to Forems in the following PR:
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Adds support to logging into Forem with Facebook Oauth. We're only using the Omniauth Facebook provider, not Facebook's SDK. In addition: only the bare minimum amount of information is requested from Facebook, so no app review is required on their end (and we limit the amount of user data that we're asking for). Included is:
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The main difference in our approach is that we have a "one to many" correspondence between a user and the preferred login method. Something we call
Identity. Thus a user can have a Twitter identity, a GitHub identity and so on.