Laravel socialstream package

Social authentication system using socialstream package in Laravel 8

Hi, in this article we’ll be looking at integrating socialstream into a laravelapp to enable user authentication using social tools (Facebook, Twitter, google, Github) out of the box with testing on localhost.

Socialstream — Basically means Laravel Socialite Meets Jetstream in one package

First, let’s create a new project called socialauthentication

laravel new socialauthentication

OR

composer create-project laravel/laravel 

Change directory

cd socialauthentication 

Laravel Jetstream provides the implementation for your application’s login, registration, email verification, two-factor authentication, session management, API via Laravel Sanctum, and optional team management features. Jetstream is designed using Tailwind CSS and offers your choice of Livewire or Inertiajs scaffolding.

Laravel provides an easy, convenient way to authenticate users with OAuth providers using Laravel Socialite out of the box. Socialite currently supports authentication with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, GitHub etc..

Next, let’s require the socialstream package for this tutorial.

composer require joelbutcher/socialstream

After running the above command it will bring up the following prompt to take you through installing jetstream and to choose between livewire or inertiajs.

Do you want to install Jetstream? (yes/no) [no]: yes

Type yes and press enter

Which Jetstream stack do you prefer: [0] livewire [1] inertia > 0

Type 0 and press enter

Will your application use teams? (yes/no) [no]: > no

Type no and press enter we don’t need teams on this project

Next, run npm install to install dependencies

npm install

Next, run npm dev to build dependencies.

npm run dev

After running dev you will get this output

Next, open the socialauthentication app in your favourite editor.

Go to socialstream.php in the config folder

Inside the providers array add the following methods

Providers::facebook(), 
Providers::google(),

Next we’ll configure the .env file to setup the database

Database setup varies as there are many ways to connect to the database depending on your machine.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql 
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 
DB_PORT=3306 
DB_DATABASE=socialauthentication 
DB_USERNAME=root 
DB_PASSWORD=

Let’s run the migrate command

php artisan migrate

127.0.0.1:8000 doesn’t work on callback URL so let’s configure a virtual host for laravel app.

Open Notepad or any text editor as administrator.

Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Add to the end

127.0.0.1        localhost

Save and close after editing

Next Open Notepad or any text editor as an administrator Open the http-vhosts.conf file located at xampp\apache\conf\extra\

Add the following code at the end of the file.

DocumentRoot “C:/xampp/htdocs” ServerName localhost

Save and close after editing

Restart xampp and type localhost:8000 on the browser

php artisan serve

Click on register

click on login

Next open services.php and add the configuration for the two providers above

'google' => [
        'client_id' => env('GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID'),
        'client_secret' => env('GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET'),
        'redirect' => env('GOOGLE_REDIRECT'),
    ],
'facebook' => [
        'client_id' => env('FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID'),
        'client_secret' => env('FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET'),
        'redirect' => env('FACEBOOK_REDIRECT'),
    ],

Next, let’s go to Google console to create an app for authenticating users via Google accounts and obtain the oauth credentials.

console.cloud.google.com/apis

Click on create project and set the project name to socialauthentication or any name of your choice.

Open the socialauthentication project

Go to the dashboard on google console

click on enable API services, search for Google plus API and enable it.

Next click on credentials.

First, we need to configure the consent screen — click on configure consent screen, check the external option and click create.

Next fill in the edit app registration form

app name social authentication

user support email your email account

the app homepage is localhost:8000

enter your mail on the developer information save and continue

No any other additional details is required for testing purpose just click save and continue to the last step

Next click on credentials — from the dropdown option click on OAuth client ID

Application type: web Name: social authentication URi for redirect: localhost:8000/oauth/google/callback

Click save a window will popup copy the client id and secret id then paste on .env file

GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=************
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=********
GOOGLE_REDIRECT=http://localhost:8000/oauth/google/callback

Refresh the browser go to register and click on the google icon. It’ll redirect to ask for permission to allow registration using the gmail account. After successful registration here is a sample of the output

Next let’s create an app on facebook developers platform

If you don’t have a Facebook developers account kindly apply for one.

Next click on create app, check the Build connected experiences option and click continue

Supply the following information on the next window pop up

App name: social authentication App contact email: your email will show up by default

Click on create app

After creating the click on setup to add facebook login as the product

Next click on web

After clicking on web supply the callback URL localhost:8000/oauth/facebook/callback

Save Click on basics under the settings dropdown

copy the client id and paste on the Facebook details on the .env file

click on show to get the app secret and it’ll prompt for a password before revealing it. copy the secret and paste it into the .env file respectively.

FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID=********************
FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET=***************
FACEBOOK_REDIRECT=http://localhost:8000/oauth/facebook/callback

Click on basics and supply the following details

App Domains: localhost

Scroll down and click on save changes.

Since we’re already registered with a google account if the email is similar to the Facebook account it won’t work.

Run

php artisan migrate:fresh

Refresh the browser and use Facebook to register.

Note: if the authentication doesn’t work try the following :

Clear config

php artisan config:clear

Reserve the application

php artisan serve

Here is the link to this article codebase on Github

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