Future of this library: electron-login?

[jbreckmckye]

Hi all. It's been about four years since I first wrote this project, and maybe eighteen months since I refactored it.

Since then there's a been a small but steady trickle of usage, but probably not enough to treat this as a major concern. At the same time, I haven't worked on Electron apps in a little while, nor on Auth0, so I haven't had much use for this in my day job.

Sometimes suggested improvements do come down the line, like #35, which would help the library considerably but which I can't find time to work on.

I think this library might benefit from a slight change in direction. Specifically, I'm thinking of writing this as a generic Electron Authentication widget.

The reason for this:

• The combination of Auth0 and Electron is niche, and in any case they promote their own boilerplate
• I may have some Electron work coming down the line in my day job, but the auth backend will be Okta, not Auth0
• I've already done the work of refactoring this app to support several IO adapters - hopefully this would get us towards something more generic

What I'm thinking of doing therefore is

• writing a spike to integrate with an Okta PKCE flow
• writing a spike to integrate with a custom auth flow
• using this to evaluate moving to a new, generic package

If I can do that, my hope is that there'd be more users, which in turn would help me justify building more features. It might also attract more outside contributions.

I probably wouldn't have time to do this immediately, but perhaps in the next couple of months. If so, I'll post some updates.