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Using Google oAuth to authenticate a React app and Express API
////////////
// REACT APP
////////////
// Your login screen
<GoogleLogin
clientId={process.env.REACT_APP_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID}
buttonText="Sign in with Google"
className="ct-button ct-button--secondary"
onSuccess={handleResponse}
onFailure={handleResponse}
cookiePolicy="single_host_origin"
/>
// Handling the response from Google
const handleLogin = async googleData => {
const res = await fetch("/api/v1/auth/google", {
method: "POST",
body: JSON.stringify({
token: googleData.tokenId
}),
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
})
const data = await res.json()
// store returned user in a context?
}
//////////////
// EXPRESS API
//////////////
// Verify Google-provided token, check against our database and store results in session
const { OAuth2Client } = require('google-auth-library')
const client = new OAuth2Client(process.env.CLIENT_ID)
server.post("/api/v1/auth/google", async (req, res) => {
const { token } = req.body
const ticket = await client.verifyIdToken({
idToken: token,
audience: process.env.CLIENT_ID
});
const { name, email, picture } = ticket.getPayload();
const user = await db.user.upsert({
where: { email: email },
update: { name, picture },
create: { name, email, picture }
})
req.session.userId = user.id
res.status(201)
res.json(user)
})
// Check authentication middleware
server.use(async (req, res, next) => {
const user = await db.user.findFirst({where: { id: req.session.userId }})
req.user = user
next()
})
// Sign out route
server.delete("/api/v1/auth/logout", async (req, res) => {
await req.session.destroy()
res.status(200)
res.json({
message: "Logged out successfully"
})
})
// "Me" route
server.get("/me", async (req, res) => {
res.status(200)
res.json(req.user)
})
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Hi @jhackett1 , thanks for the gist and blog. Just wanted to mention req.session.destroy() doesn't return a Promise and it takes a callback as declared in the library itself. Please let me know if I'm correct. If yes, please update the gist if you can.

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