Integrating GitHub SSO & OAuth Authentication with Vendure

Reducing Friction in Customer Registration

Encouraging customers to create an account is key for enabling personalised marketing and staying in touch with them. However, many potential customers abandon the sign-up process when faced with yet another password to create and remember.

One of the most effective ways to increase registration is to offer convenient authentication methods.
By providing social login support, such as GitHub OAuth authentication, you remove friction and simplify the process for your users.

The Vendure Advantage for SSO Integration

While the benefits are clear, implementing third-party authentication can be challenging on platforms with rigid systems.

Vendure's powerful and extensible authentication framework is built for this kind of customisation. It provides the flexibility for developers to create custom AuthenticationStrategy plugins, allowing for the seamless integration of social logins like GitHub.

This enables a frictionless SSO experience, improving both security and user convenience without compromise.

A Step-by-Step Guide to GitHub SSO

Follow this comprehensive tutorial to implement GitHub SSO in your Vendure store.

Vendure Documentation: GitHub OAuth Authentication Tutorial

This guide provides a complete walkthrough for implementing GitHub OAuth. You will learn how to:

• Build a Vendure authentication plugin from scratch to handle the end-to-end GitHub SSO flow.
• Securely configure a GitHub OAuth App to enable social login for your storefront.
• Integrate the Single Sign-On experience into your headless commerce frontend, including the redirect and callback logic.
• Automatically create and manage customer accounts from the GitHub authentication data within Vendure.