Document authentication flow with centralized servers

[friedger]

There are a few articles that describe ways to authenticate a user with a server like the blockstack forum, a chat server, ..

• https://forum.blockstack.org/t/authenticating-a-user-to-a-3rd-party-server/7016
• https://forum.blockstack.org/t/adding-blockstack-authentication-to-a-centralized-app/6252
• https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-ruby
• https://github.com/blockstack/omniauth-blockstack

The documentation should help to solve issues like opencollective/opencollective#1749 or mastodon/mastodon#10344

[moxiegirl]

@friedger You mean like this?

https://docs.blockstack.org/develop/auth_provider.html

[friedger]

@moxiegirl You are ahead of all the things! That tutorial is great.

I was also looking for a high level description so that developers can integrate blockstack into their current web site that does not use ruby and omniauth. I am just going through that with OpenCollective, they use one-time email password authentication (and nextjs). Not sure what exactly would be useful:

• guide for product owner
• how to add blockstack when using username/password
• how to add blockstack when using one-time passwords via email/SMS
• how to add blockstack when using webauthn

[moxiegirl]

@friedger Glad you like it!

"guide for a product owner" --- would that be like how to brand?

The other three, from a technical angle, do we have apps that illustrate these?

[CodeSlip]

This guide is great for Rails clients/backends, is there any chance we can get an update for Node & JS environments?

[moxiegirl]

@CodeSlip we can add that to the list. Right now, unfortunately, this ticket isn't in the roadmap. @friedger if you see examples of projects that do these things, please let me know where that code lives in terms of files and lines.