React Google Login

Create a react app to login with google account. In this tutorial you will:

• save login data in local storage to remember user login
• create backend api using node and express to authenticate user
• publish on heroku and test it on production

Run it locally

How to implement

frontend:

1. npx create-react-app react-google-login
2. npm install react-google-login
3. edit App.js
4. create h1 for app name.
5. define loginData state hook
6. check loginData and render content
7. if loginData is null render GoogleLogin component
8. if loginData isn't null render you are logged in message.
9. implement handleLogout
10. implement handleFailure
11. implement handleLogin

google cloud platform

1. login to google
2. go to https://console.cloud.google.com
3. create a project
4. go to api credential
5. accept consent screen
6. craete oauth client id
7. craete .env file and save it as REACT_APP_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID

backend:

1. create server.js file
2. npm install express dotenv google-auth-library
3. config dotenv
4. create OAuth2Client client
5. create express server
6. use express.json()
7. define app.post('/api/google-login', ...
8. define app.listen

heroku publish

1. create Procfile
2. create app.use(express.static
3. app.get('*',
4. commit changes
5. publish to github
6. create heroku account and app
7. connect it to github repo