Comment by nameless on "A Quick Beginner's Guide to Set Up Auth0 + React"

Hi nameless, thanks for the comment :) Congrats on completing your full-stack course.

To answer your question, OAuth 2.0 is a protocol that allows a user to grant limited access to their resources on one site, to another site, without having to expose their credentials. You know like those "Sign in with Google/Facebook/Apple/GitHub" stuff.

On the other hand, auth0 - which is what this tutorial is about, is the platform that allows developers to implement the OAuth2 protocol more conveninently.

So Google OAuth is basically allowing users to Sign Up with Google. And Facebook OAuth allows users to Sign Up with Facebook.

And auth0 is that platform can provide this implementation more easily for you. Hope that answers it :)

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