Node.js 8 the Right Way

Authenticating with Facebook, Twitter, and Google

At this point, your full-stack JavaScript application has Passport in place for managing the authentication for user sessions. We’re now ready to plug into various authentication providers, allowing users to sign in with their external accounts.

Authentication mechanisms in Passport are called Strategies. To support each provider, you’ll need to install and configure the npm module for the provider, which includes a Strategy class that plugs into Passport.

The steps are as follows:

1. Create an app with the provider.
2. Add the app’s identifier and secret information to your config.
3. Install the Passport Strategy for that provider.
4. Configure the Strategy instance in your server.js file.

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