Google auth with Beego
As I move forward with my Beego project, I have reached a point where I need to authenticate my users. In the flow that I’m looking for, the client (web app, mobile app, etc…), will communicate directly with the Auth provider (Google, Facebook, etc…) and get a JWT. The only thing the server needs to do is validate the JWT. If the validation succeeds, it means the user is logged in.
If you are not familiar with JWT, you can read my previous article that explains how JWT works.
Authentication flow
Since the authentication with Google is going to happen entirely on the client, the server logic becomes a lot simpler. For my application, all endpoints will require the user to be logged in, so I will create a middleware to verify this. The middleware will expect a valid JWT in the Authorization header. If this requirement is not met, the server will return a 401.