Building OAuth Strategies with passport.js Chapter 7- Adding the necessary routes.
- Adding a middleware method to check authentication.
- Redirecting the user to the home page and displaying the logged in user's email
in the top bar.
Let's dive into the details for each of the preceding steps.
Creating and setting up a LinkedIn app
Just like we did for the Facebook and Twitter Strategies, to be able to use the Linkedin
Strategy, we have to build a LinkedIn application. The developers, portal for LinkedIn is
at https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps. You will see a list of all of your
applications there. You will also note a button to create a new application; click on Create
Application.
We just have to add the name of our application. We can name the application whatever we
want, but for our application, we will be naming it movie_rating_app: