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Configuration and installation of Socialite

Configuration and installation of Socialite

From the course: Extending Laravel with First Party Packages

Configuration and installation of Socialite

- [Narrator] Hello and welcome to the Laravel 5 Recipes course. And this first section we're going to talk about Laravel Socialite, which is the official package that's used to add social sign-on abilities to the basic Laravel authentication. So all of this is built on the basic authentication that we worked on on the first few volumes or if you didn't get to watch those volumes, it's the basic authentication that is set up with Laravel out of the box and Laravel Socialite adds a bunch of social sign-on features on top of that, allowing us to easily start setting up and allowing users to sign-in through social networks. So throughout this section, what we're gonna focus on is starting off by configuring and installing Socialite. We'll get our new project up and running and get Socialite set up on there and configure it. In the next video we'll talk about how it works, how social sign-on works, how Oauth 2 works and stuff like that. Then we'll actually go and create a login so that you…

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