Last Updated: October 17, 2018

· data_me

Javascript Github Social Login Bootstrap Button for OAuth

#javascript

#oauth

#social login bootstrap

Purpose

The simplest Javascript step-by-step guide with full working code (< 15 lines) to create a Social Login Bootstrap Button for Github on any webpage using OAuth.io

Outcome

Fully Functional Code

To demonstrate the simplicity of this solution, let us look at the final code we create. You can try out the code instantly here: https://jsfiddle.net/dg9h7dse/30/

HTML

<a id="github-button" class="btn btn-block btn-social btn-github">
  <i class="fa fa-github"></i> Sign in with Github
</a>

CSS

None

JS

$('#github-button').on('click', function() {
  // Initialize with your OAuth.io app public key
  OAuth.initialize('YOUR_OAUTH_KEY');
  // Use popup for oauth
  // Alternative is redirect
  OAuth.popup('github').then(github => {
    console.log('github:', github);
    // Retrieves user data from oauth provider
    // Prompts 'welcome' message with User's email on successful login
    // #me() is a convenient method to retrieve user data without requiring you
    // to know which OAuth provider url to call
    github.me().then(data => {
      console.log('me data:', data);
      alert('GitHub says your email is:' + data.email + ".\nView browser 'Console Log' for more details");
    });
    // Retrieves user data from OAuth provider by using #get() and
    // OAuth provider url
    github.get('/user').then(data => {
      console.log('self data:', data);
    })
  });
})

External Resources

jQuery: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js
oauth.io JS: https://cdn.rawgit.com/oauth-io/oauth-js/c5af4519/dist/oauth.js
Bootstrap: https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css
Font-Aweseome: https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
Bootstrap-social: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-social/4.12.0/bootstrap-social.min.css

General Steps

Create Github app
Create OAuth.io account
Link Github app keys to oauth.io account
Create social login button in HTML/CSS/JS with oauth.io app key

1. Create Github app

Go to https://github.com/settings/developers

If you are not yet logged in to Github, you will be prompted to.

Click on ‘Register a new application’.

Fill out the form with your details. The Homepage URL should be https://oauth.io and the Authorization callback URL should be https://oauth.io/auth

Click ‘Register application’

You have successfully created your Github app. Here you have the Client ID and Client Secret which you need to add to your OAuth.io dashboard.

2. Create oauth.io Account

Create an account at OAuth.io

On the main dashboard, add the domain name of the webpage where you will the social login button into ‘Domain & URL whitelist’

Click on 'Integrated APIs' on the left menu.

On the 'Integration APIs' dashboard, click 'Add APIs'.

Select ‘Github' as the OAuth provider that you want to add.

3. Link Github app keys to oauth.io account

From your Github app page, copy the Github ‘Client ID’ and 'Client Secret' that you noted earlier into 'clientid', and 'clientsecret' fields, respectively, select your desired scope and then click 'Save'.

Click on 'Try Auth' to see if you have configured oauth.io to access your Github app correctly.

4. Create social login button in HTML/CSS/JS with oauth.io app key

Host the code below on your server. If you have no server yet, you can test the code here: https://jsfiddle.net/dg9h7dse/30/