examples/with-facebook-auth/README.md

Facebook Auth Example

Check out the Auth with Facebook docs.

Try it at https://expo.io/@community/with-facebook-auth

How to use

Running the app

• Run yarn or npm install
• Run expo start, try it out.
• Press "Open FB Auth" in the app and then check your logs. Take the redirectUrl that was logged and enter it into the "Valid OAuth redirect URIs" in your Facebook app configuration step below.

Setting up the Facebook app

• Follow the steps described in the Facebook for Developers documentation
• Add the "Facebook Login" product and configure it (screenshot)
• Make the app public (screenshot)
• Swap out the FB_APP_ID in App.js with your Facebook app's id.

The idea behind the example

Expo provides a WebBrowser API that opens a SFSafariViewController or Chrome Custom Tab in a modal window. This provides a much better user experience than using a WebView, and it's more secure for your users because code cannot be injected into these browser windows. Additionally, they share cookies with the system browser, so there is no need to re-enter credentials if already authenticated. Expo also provides a wrapper around the WebBrowser API which is called AuthSession, which makes setting up an authentication flow using WebBrowser dead simple. This example demonstrates how to use the AuthSession API to sign in to Facebook.