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Published inNov 2017
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Houssem Yahiaoui
Houssem Yahiaoui
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Houssem Yahiaoui

Houssem Yahiaoui is a Telerik Developer Expert, Google Developer Group Lead, Meetup organizer, Conference Speaker, and Technical blogger among a few things. He has been a developer since the age of 14 and Firebase lover since day one. He's also a passionate JavaScript developer and strongly believes that JavaScript should fix the World's hanger problem.
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Implementing the linking of multiple authentication providers

Let's suppose the following: a user created a new profile with email/password authentication, then they filled in their profile information to be saved their profile, and then the operation was performed. But what will happen once they log out and want to log back in again, and find that OAuth button on the login screen? The normal behavior is that they will simply want to use the different OAuth-based authentication methods instead of adding their email/password again.

Choosing one of the many present OAuth authentication options will result in a problem. A new account will be automatically created, and that means more work for the user. From here, we come to the idea of linking multiple accounts into one.

This means that a given user will link all their OAuth authentication profiles into one. This would imply...

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Published in: Nov 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788296335

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Houssem Yahiaoui

Houssem Yahiaoui is a Telerik Developer Expert, Google Developer Group Lead, Meetup organizer, Conference Speaker, and Technical blogger among a few things. He has been a developer since the age of 14 and Firebase lover since day one. He's also a passionate JavaScript developer and strongly believes that JavaScript should fix the World's hanger problem.
Read more about Houssem Yahiaoui