To handle OAuth with Google as a provider, you need to use a standard browser and have a localhost server for it to redirect to. This is most easily done with tauri-plugin-oauth.
There are lots of implementations that have used Google and an OAuth provider. gdrive-sync keeps all the secrets in Rust; this is the recommended way. Since Rust can be quite confusing when you're new to it, you can also do it entirely from the frontend like tauri-oauth-supabase or tauri-firebase-login part 1 and part 2.
#Help Making An App That Makes Use Of Google Auth
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proven gazelle
"you can also do it entirely from the frontend" - using the supabase approach, is it possible to pass any auth data (all i need is to know if the user is authenticated) to the rust backend? or is it really all in the fronend
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all i need is to know if the user is authenticated
You can pass a boolean or enum to the backend for this.
I believe Supabase has a callback on authentication success which you could use.
proven gazelle
<https://supabase.com/docs/reference/javascript/auth-onauthstatechange>
fantastic, thank you. as a last question, does this method work persistently, like authentication would work on a browser?
i would assume yes but im just curious
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The main difference is that you need to open a standard browser to handle credential input. Other than that, it's all done in Tauri the same way you would do so in a standard browser.