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Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

You're reading from   Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node Build scalable and powerful web apps with modern web stack: MongoDB, Vue, Node.js, and Express

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831147
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aneeta Sharma Aneeta Sharma
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing MEVN FREE CHAPTER 2. Building an Express Application 3. Introducing MongoDB 4. Introducing REST APIs 5. Building the Real Application 6. Building Authentication with passport.js 7. Building OAuth Strategies with passport.js 8. Introducing Vuex 9. Testing an MEVN Application 10. Going Live 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring Passport's LinkedIn strategy

The configuration for all the strategies is somewhat similar. So, the following are the steps we have to follow to configure this strategy:

  1. Creating and registering an application on LinkedIn. This will provide us with a consumer key (API Key) and a consumer secret (API Secret).
  2. Adding a button to our login page that allows users to log in via LinkedIn.

  1. Adding the necessary routes.
  2. Adding a middleware method to check authentication.
  3. Redirecting the user to the home page and displaying the logged in user's email in the top bar.

Let's dive into the details for each of the preceding steps.

Creating and setting up a LinkedIn app

Just like we did for the Facebook and...

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