Introduction

• In addition to typical, form based authentication, Laravel also provides a simple, convenient way to authenticate with OAuth providers using Laravel Socialite. Socialite currently supports authentication via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.

• The idea of ​​the project is to be able to enter through a Google account, only if the user is registered in the system.

Tech Stack

Deployment

• Clone project

git clone https://github.com/prom97/laravel-socialite-test.git

• Install dependencies from composer.json and package.json (inside the project directory)

composer install

npm install

npm run dev

• Create a new database and config your .env file (line 11 for reference)
  • Default Database name: socialite
  • If the .env file does not exist:

cp .env.example .env

DB_CONNECTION=<your_db_connection>
DB_HOST=<your_host>
DB_PORT=<your_port>
DB_DATABASE=<your_database_name>
DB_USERNAME=<your_username>
DB_PASSWORD=<your_password>

• Run migrations to set your db tables structure

php artisan migrate

• You must register at https://console.cloud.google.com and create a project, configurate OAuth Consent Screen and make the credential to copy on your .env file (line 60 for reference)

• Serve it

php artisan serve

• If you have any 500 Server error, try CTRL+C and then

php artisan cache:clear

composer dump-autoload

php artisan key:generate