[Identity] - Provide a story of how to use InteractiveBrowserCredential on Electron

• Package Name: @azure/identity
• Package Version: 1.2.1
• Operating system: Windows 10
• nodejs
  • version: 12.18.3
• browser
  • name/version: Chrome 87.0.4280.88
• electron
  • Electron 11.1.1

Describe the bug InteractiveBrowserCredential does not work in Electron even when run from the renderer (chromium) process.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Clone this sample: https://github.com/maorleger/electron-repro
2. Update renderer.js as follows:
   • privateBlob: should point to a blob that is private
3. Run the sample npm start
4. (optional) Clear the dev tools console
5. Click on the button Trigger auth
6. Sign in

Expected behavior InteractiveBrowserAuth does not currently work in Electron which may be expected - instead of a popup it launches a new tab in the default browser, but the redirect URI that is called is called in the same browser so nothing is listening for it.

Instead, my electron sample (in the Azure SDK for JS repo) uses the AuthCodeCredential which works well. So I think I might have expected either:

1. InteractiveBrowserCredential to Just Work ™ or
2. Maybe some documentation about Electron and needing the AuthCodeCredential? As we discussed it might be the right credential to use for Electron but it would be great if that was easy to find

Additional context

Feel free to reach out to me if you run into any issues!

[sadasant]

I’d like to test this with MSAL 2.0. I’ll ping you about it.

[sadasant]

I’ll move this to the backlog since we don’t have a clear picture of when we’ll able to pick this up.