Building GitHub Apps for Django Authentication

Adding social authentication to your web applications improves user registration rates and simplifies the login experience. This text-based course guides you through the foundational steps of creating a GitHub application and linking it to a Django user management system. You will learn the mechanics of OAuth 2.0 authentication, secure credential handling, and user session management. By completing this course, you will be able to confidently set up developer applications on external platforms and write clean, secure integration code in your Python web projects. What you'll learn: - Understand the core concepts of OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization flows - Configure a GitHub Developer Application with correct callback URLs and permissions - Integrate external authentication into Django's built-in user management system - Manage sensitive application credentials securely using environment variables - Implement secure token exchanges and handle user profile retrieval - Test authentication flows locally using modern virtual environments and secure practices This course begins with foundational concepts of web authentication and OAuth protocols. You will then progress through step-by-step configuration instructions for GitHub and Django, followed by writing and testing the integration code. This course is designed for beginner Python and Django developers who want to implement social login features. No prior experience with OAuth or GitHub APIs is required.