Github Auth Service
This project aims to generate access_token for github oAuth APIs. The access_token is created from code which created by github after you logging with github in your website, according to oAuth2.0 Authorization Code Flow
Why need me?
Github authentication API doesn't support oAuth2.0 Implicit Flow. Given you have a Single page Application, you want to call Github API in browser-side, you need a backedend service to protect the client_secret and then generate access_token.
Workflow
oAuth code -> github-auth-service -> access_token
access_token can be saved in your frontend and call Github API directly in browser side.
Set up in local
export GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=xxxxxxxxxxx
export GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxx
yarn install
yarn start
Deploy using docker
export GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=xxxxxxxxxxx
export GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxx
docker run -it bywang/github-auth-service \
-e GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=$GITHUB_CLIENT_ID \
-e GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=$GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET
How to call this service?
POST /auth
{"code": "your_code_here"} //with data in Json format: