How to integrate oAuth login with a packaged electron app

Question

I have been working on a new electron app with react that uses the Spotify API. I am using oAuth to authenticate with Spotify and a return an access token, this why fine in a lo

Answer 1

You can register custom protocol and intercept it via electron so that you dont require a web server. you may set the urn of the native desktop/mobile application instead of redirect uri of the web app.

https://electronjs.org/docs/api/protocol

protocol.registerFileProtocol('yourprotocolname', (request, callback) => {

      //parse authorization code from request 

  }, (error) => {
    if (error) console.error('Failed to register protocol')
  })

Set the urn of the application in the oauth configuration as yourprotocolname://example