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Ionic Cookbook

You're reading from   Ionic Cookbook Over 35 exciting recipes to spice up your application development with Ionic

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287978
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hoc Phan Hoc Phan
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Our First App with Ionic FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing States and Navigation 3. Adding Device Features Support 4. Offline Data Storage 5. Handling Gestures and Events 6. App Theme Customization 7. Extending Ionic with Your Own Components 8. User Registration and Authentication 9. Saving and Loading Data Using Firebase 10. Finalizing Your Apps for Different Platforms Index

Creating a LinkedIn app and configuring authentication in Auth0


Firebase does not support LinkedIn natively, but it does allow the creation of a custom token. This method is used mainly when the authentication mechanism is actually performed somewhere else, either on your own server or another SaaS provider. In this case, you will be using Auth0 to provide the LinkedIn authentication. You could have performed the Facebook, Twitter, or Google authentication via Auth0 as well. However, it's recommended to use Firebase as much as possible as it's simpler to use. This is not only due to cost-related reasons, but also for the reduction of the number of integration points and code complexity.

Getting ready

Account registration is required for Auth0, Firebase, and LinkedIn in order to perform the steps in this recipe.

How to do it...

You need to configure your app in Auth0 first by performing the following steps:

  1. Sign up for an Auth0 account and navigate to https://manage.auth0.com/.

  2. You will see the...

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