Understanding Social Authentication [4/365]

Since I chose to start with integrating authentication to my application, let’s briefly explain what authentication is, then we can look from a high perspective how it works. For our purpose, authentication is the process of ensuring that visitors of our application really are who they say. To ensure this, they usually have to input a secret that they should be the only one to know. Thankfully, we do not have to manage this secret. Read more