Link to an external site in advanced node and express section
See original GitHub issueWe have an external link in the below paragraph, which link to this page
Obtaining your Client ID and Secret from GitHub is done in your account profile settings under ‘developer settings’, then ‘OAuth applications’. Click ‘Register a new application’, name your app, paste in the url to your Replit homepage (Not the project code’s url), and lastly, for the callback url, paste in the same url as the homepage but with
/auth/github/callback
added on. This is where users will be redirected for us to handle after authenticating on GitHub. Save the returned information as'GITHUB_CLIENT_ID'
and'GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET'
in your.env
file.
here is the file:
Ideally, the camper doesn’t need to use external docs to pass the current step, but this may not be possible with a little info, we are giving.
To sort this issue, we need to create an Article about How to set up OAuth application
, like this one https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-quick-introduction-to-oauth-using-passport-js-65ea5b621a/, but with way to sort it using GitHub ClientID and secret
Or we can change the context from using GitHub to using Google.
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Article is live: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-set-up-a-github-oauth-application/