As a user, It’s very often we would have used Facebook accounts to login to a web application. The process would have been so simple. This blog will explain to you how to implement Facebook authentication with Node and Express JS. To implement this, we will be using a third-party library called Passport JS. Passport JS is authentication middleware for Node and Express JS. Passport JS can be used with any Express JS applications. Passport JS provides 500 + strategies.

Table of Content

1. Initializing a Node JS Project
2. Creating OAuth client ID
3. Configuring Facebook OAuth
4. Protecting Route and adding a logout view

#facebook-auth #nodejs #express.js