MongoDB User Authentication with Google Sign-In (Tutorial)
MongoDB has Quickly become my nonrelational database platform of choice for its high performance, broad developer support, and generous free tier. As is the case with many database engines, user management, and access control can get quite complex, especially when the software stack draws on other resources, like microservices or cloud storage. Fortunately, we can leverage so-called “federated identity providers” like Google, Facebook, and Amazon to decouple user authentication from the rest of the application. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through all the steps necessary to build a secure MongoDB-powered application from scratch. Users will need to sign in with their Google account to read from the database. We must first set up our cloud-based authentication flow, which includes coordination between Google Identity, AWS IAM, and, of course, our MongoDB cluster before we can write a single line of code. Creating a Google Apps Account The first step is to create a Google account f...