Support for Google and Facebook logins

[mycaule]

Nice feature to have, it will broaden your community since lots of users have Google and Facebook accounts.

Both provide OAuth2 API for logins.

You can even write on Google Drive as a backend.

[joyously]

Isn't the login specifically tied to the storage backend?
I doubt that login would work for controlling access to other pages.

[mycaule]

On Bloomberg Watchlist, you can login via Facebook and the data is stored on their backend using your Facebook ID.

Despite being a good workflow, it can be a bit complicated. The data might be stored in Bloomberg databases with the user Facebook ID attached to it.

You also need a Facebook App that the user authorize during first login.

Most professional apps with social logins use that workflow.

[LeaVerou]

Yup, as @joyously mentioned, in Mavo the login is tied to the storage backend. There are backends however that support multiple logins, Firebase being a prime example, so I believe it could already work if you use Firebase.

I do want to support Google Drive at some point, I even started coding it long before Mavo was released, then got fed up with its API and trying to get it to work cross-origin and gave up.

Regarding Facebook, it's a bit trickier to figure out a place to store the data. A hack could be to store it in a hidden post, but I'm sure there are length limits. Also I'm not sure if its API is CORS-enabled and supports unauthenticated requests, both necessary for building anything reasonable with an API + Mavo.

[karger]

I'd say that's more about signing in to Bloomberg using facebook, rather than signing in to facebook---need a storage adapter that can access the Bloomberg site.

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[mycaule]

Signing in the Bloomberg Facebook app, an app that Bloomberg host on Facebook servers.

[efeichen]

Hey @mycaule, if you are looking for a Google Drive backend, I recently created one and it just got added to the plugin directory. You can check it out here. Feel free to try it out and open an issue! 🙂