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David Herron
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David Herron is a software engineer living in Silicon Valley who has worked on projects ranging from an X.400 email server to being part of the team that launched the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. That took David through several companies until he grew tired of communicating primarily with machines, and developed a longing for human communication. Today, David is an independent writer of books and blog posts covering topics related to technology, programming, electric vehicles, and clean energy technologies.
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Providing Twitter login support for the Notes application

If you want your application to hit the big time, it's a great idea to ease the registration process by using third-party authentication. Websites all over the internet allow you to log in using accounts from other services such as Facebook or Twitter. Doing so removes hurdles to prospective users signing up for your service. Passport makes it extremely easy to do this.

Authenticating users with Twitter requires installation of TwitterStrategy from the passport-twitter package, registering a new application with Twitter, adding a couple of routes to routes/user.mjs, and making a small change in partials/header.hbs. Integrating other third-party services requires similar steps.

Registering an application with Twitter

Twitter, as with every other third-party service, uses OAuth to handle authentication. OAuth is a standard protocol through which an application or a person can authenticate with one website by using credentials...

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David Herron

David Herron is a software engineer living in Silicon Valley who has worked on projects ranging from an X.400 email server to being part of the team that launched the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. That took David through several companies until he grew tired of communicating primarily with machines, and developed a longing for human communication. Today, David is an independent writer of books and blog posts covering topics related to technology, programming, electric vehicles, and clean energy technologies.
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