Use Facebook OAuth in a simple way inside your electron App.

Installation

add it to your electron project using npm install oauth-electron-facebook --save or yarn add oauth-electron-facebook

Usage

require oauth-electron-facebook exports a function that requires a javascript object and an electron window, as seen on the next example:

const auth = require('oauth-electron-facebook')
const { BrowserWindow, session } = require('electron')

let info = {
    key: ***,
    secret: ***,
    scope: ***
},
window = new BrowserWindow({webPreferences: {nodeIntegration: false}});

auth.login(info, window, session)

the login function will return a Promise with the access token and secret

{
    "access_token":<string>,
    "token_type":<string>,
    "expires_in":<number>
}

Security

Consider this before you integrate this library in your application:

• It is a bad practice to hardcode keys & secrets in code that is going to be shipped.
• If you are looking to have your own backend, consider using it for authentication with 3rd party services. IETF RFC 8252.

Migration V1.x to V2.x

• the response from facebook has changed so please adapt, there does not seem to be any refresh token anymore
• session is required to be passed as events of chromium have changed
• localhost is not anymore an accepted url for redirect configure and use "https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html"

Migration V0.x to V1.x

• there is no more need for the facebook object, info becomes a basic object with the properties stated in the usage step.
• the return object has a different format.

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