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I'm looking for insight from someone that has implemented both Socialite and Passport to create email and social media logins for SPA and/or native apps.
I've seen articles that walk through using these two solutions together and they seem like they would do what I need them to, but one of my questions is how stable is Socialite? What happens in the future when social media platforms change their authentication process?
Is a new version of Socialite released and is the upgrade simple, or is it possible there will be a good amount of work needed to bring the application up to new authentication standards?
I really want to use these two solutions, but one of the factors that is causing me to consider a solution like Auth0 is the simplicity of not having to worry about the upkeep for social media authentication.
Can anyone speak to this with experience and let me know what the pros and cons might be?
What happens in the future when social media platforms change their authentication process? Is a new version of Socialite released and is the upgrade simple, or is it possible there will be a good amount of work needed to bring the application up to new authentication standards?
All social networks use industry-standard protocol for authentication so no need to worry about changes.
You are breaking your brain for no reason.
I'm just double checking since I wrote social logins in the past and then these platforms changed over to Oauth, which broke all the libraries I was using for that. Thanks for the the feedback. I'll start working on adding in Socialite.
Either you wrote those logins 15 years ago or OAuth existed but you didn't implement it. In any way it will be easier to manage them with Socialite than by yourself since there is a bunch of people contributing to it and testing it for various use cases and bugs get fixed pretty quickly.
That was the reason I was asking, but I guess I should have specified it was the switch to Oauth2, which wasn't that long ago. I used libraries that were well maintained four years ago, but the code ended up needing major refactoring to update for the switch. I just wanted to make sure I'm not putting myself in the same position with Socialite, which I didn't think would be the case, but just wanted to ask.
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