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OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in plain English)
Okta developer advocate Nate Barbettini explains OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect in a roughly hour-long talk. It starts from the problems the protocols solve and walks through the flows. The description notes the implicit flow material is now out of date.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN repeatedly points people to it as the clearest way to finally understand OAuth, to the point that one team made it required viewing for new hires.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- OktaDev
- Topic
- oauth and openid connect
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This also has a very nice and simple explanation of the whole thing: [VIDEO] It's about 1h long, but it's really worth it.
sakisv on Hacker News · 2020-07
In Everything you need to know about OAuth 2.0I read so many docs when I was trying to implement OAuth and got more and more confused. This video was a huge help though for explaining all of the concepts: [VIDEO]
butisaidsudo on Hacker News · 2023-04
In Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?at my old company we worked with auth a lot, so it was a requirement for new joiners to watch this in their first week. i still recommend it if you want to learn oauth from 0 [VIDEO]
willsmith72 on Hacker News · 2024-04
In Learn OAuth by building a client with Node.js
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.