4-9 Understanding OAuth Basics

We’ve been discussing OAuth a lot in this chapter, but we haven’t really talked about what it is.

In this lesson we cover why we need OAuth, what it does, and how we’ve been using it in our online course platform.

Understanding OAuth at a basic level helps us put all of these auth pieces together, even though a deep understanding of it just isn’t necessary. Auth is hard, and that’s why we outsource it instead of building it from scratch ourselves.