let's talk about how we can implement social authentication and provide users with several social login options and how we can handle the user data obtained as a result of these logins in our application. In the hands-on, we'll look at how to setup a login module and then integrate Facebook and Google login authentications to this login module.
Social Login providers implement user authentication by means of OAuth2 protocol. OAuth2 or OpenAuthentication2 is an opensource authentication protocol, which facilitates authenticating a user over an authentication provider for a requesting party and then securely exchanging user identity, without having the need for user credentials. ASP.NET Core provides seamless integration of this by means of its built-in Authorization middleware and on top of it provides Identity middlewares exclusive for popular Identity Providers such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub etc.
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