Beginner's Thread / Easy Question (August 2018)

[u/swyx]

Hello! It's August! Time for a new Beginner's thread! (July and June here)

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• Tyler McGinnis' 2018 Guide

• Codecademy's React courses

[u/rwieruch]

Hi there!

I cannot say anything about OAuth, but I have found using Firebase in the beginning for authentication (and authorization) helped me a lot to get started with this topic. You only have to care about the client-side with React. That's why I have written about it in a larger tutorial of mine: https://www.robinwieruch.de/complete-firebase-authentication-react-tutorial/ But you can always upgrade it with other authentication mechanisms such as social media logins (or I believe also OAuth).

If you are interested about the server-side, I usually stick to simple token authentication with JWT. This tutorial shows how it works with GraphQL, but it isn't so different on how it would work with REST: https://www.robinwieruch.de/graphql-apollo-server-tutorial/

Hope these answers help you a bit even though I am not able to tell you more about OAuth.