Google Sign-In for Websites and Angular 2 using Typescript
I'm building a site that has a pretty standard RESTful web service to handle persistence and complex business logic. The UI I'm building to consume this service is using Angular 2 with components written in TypeScript. Rather than build my own authentication system, I'm hoping to rely on Google Sign-In for Websites. The idea being that users will come to the site, sign in via the framework provided there and then send along the resulting ID tokens, which the server hosting the RESTful service can then verify. In the Google Sign-In documentation there are instructions for creating the login