mantagen / github-oauth-example-express

github-oauth-example-express

An example of how to authorise with Github's OAuth2 flow.

The same as this repo, but ported to Express.

Set up

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Run the following commands.

git clone https://github.com/mantagen/github-oauth-example-express
cd github-oauth-example-express
npm install

On github, go to Settings > Developer settings > OAuth applications. For your application url use http://localhost:3000, and as your callback url, use http://localhost:3000/welcome. Create a config.env file, and store in it your CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET , and BASE_URL like so:

BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000
CLIENT_ID=<insert client_id here>
CLIENT_SECRET=<insert client_secret here>

Then, to start, run:

npm run dev