Facebook App Setup for OAuth 2.0

Introduction

In the digital age, providing a seamless user experience is crucial, and integrating social logins is a significant part of this process. OAuth 2.0 has become the industry standard for authorization, and Facebook’s implementation allows millions of users to log in to third-party applications using their Facebook credentials securely.

In this lesson, we will set up a Facebook app that we can use in our Beego application for users to log in using OAuth 2.0. The objectives of this lesson are:

Let’s dive in and unlock the potential of social sign-ins.

Creating new app

Let’s begin by creating a new app on the Meta developer portal. Here are the steps to create a new application: