Connection Model
π¨βπΌ Great job! Now we've got a great foundation for our third party
authentication and connected accounts. You may have noticed, we don't store an
access token or refresh token in the database. That's because we don't actively
perform actions on the user's behalf in the background on GitHub so we don't
need to. We're just using GitHub as an authentication mechanism. If we did want
to perform actions or retrieve data for our users in the background, that would
require a bit more work and we'd need to store more data in our database.
As it is, we're all set!
π§ββοΈ I'm going to do some more work, check it out here, but
I'll describe it for you at a high level:
- I'm restructuring things to make them more generic, so
auth.github.tsandauth.github.callback.tswill now becomeauth.$provider.tsandauth.$provider.callback.ts - I'm making an
/onboarding/$providerroute which you'll be making changes to soon. It's similar to our regular onboarding route, but without the password fields and most of the fields should be auto-filled (even the user's image!) when you're done. - I'm adding a
/settings/profile/connectionspage to list the user's connections. This also requires interacting with the GitHub API to lookup a GitHub user's username from their id, so I'm adding aGITHUB_TOKENenvironment variable so we can do that. - I'm moving some of our stuff from
app/utils/auth.server.tsto more specific files likeapp/utils/providers/github.server.ts - I'm also adding a "Signup with GitHub" button on the
/signuproute.
That's the main stuff. As usual, if you'd prefer to do this stuff, I'm not
stopping you. We'll be ready for you when you're ready to move on!
