This example is a fork from passport/express-4.x-facebook-example and demonstrates how to use Express 4.x and Passport to authenticate users using GitHub. Use this example as a starting point for your own web applications.
[~/.../useoctonode/express-4.x-github-example(master)]$ pwd -P
/Users/casiano/local/src/javascript/learning/useoctonode/express-4.x-github-example
To install this example on your computer, clone the repository and install dependencies.
$ git clone [email protected]:ULL-ESIT-SYTW-1617/express-4.x-github-example.git
$ cd express-4.x-github-example
$ npm install- The example uses environment variables to configure the consumer key and consumer secret needed to access GitHub's API. Start the server with those variables set to the appropriate credentials.
$ CLIENT_ID=__GITHUB_CLIENT_ID__ CLIENT_SECRET=__GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET__ node server.js- Navigate to https://github.com/settings/developers (section OAuth applications) and press register new application to get the values for the
IDandSECRET - Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000/ to see the example in action.