Given a dependency on a service that requires client-side authentication, such as an external API, I need the viewer to click a button and open a pop-up window confirming their Google/Facebook/GitHub account. Any examples or suggestions for how to do this well? With the criteria: Minimal boilerpla…

Sure, here’s an example notebook that simulates an OAuth-style login flow: [image] Authentication Simulator An Observable notebook by Mike Bostock. It uses views to define the sign in button, such that the value of the view is the user’s login.

@donmccurdy The example does not work with uBlock or Adblock enabled.

Thanks @mbostock ! That approach looks workable to me. :slight_smile: @Cameri my code above was just an example; it doesn’t run. Or do you mean that OAuth popups sometimes do not work with ad-blockers? That may be unavoidable in this situation.

One thing that may improve the example is a way to let the rest of the notebook hang until authentication has happened, rather than trying to execute cells and reporting authentication errors. I worked around this by creating a wrapper for my service similar to your example, and having that wrapper …

[image] donmccurdy: One thing that may improve the example is a way to let the rest of the notebook hang until authentication has happened, rather than trying to execute cells and reporting authentication errors. That’s the way my authentication simulator works: if a cell references user and …

Have been battling with the same challenge while integrating Google Sign In to access a private API. Got it working nicely and decided to make a demo out of it: [image] Google Sign In + Observable + private API example Often times you might want to use Observable for doing exploratory dat…

Best practice for OAuth popup prompts?

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donmccurdy May 5, 2018, 12:15am 7

Oops, your example is very clear about that now that I’ve re-read it. Thank you for the explanation, this is working well.

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