11 min readOAuth, and more specifically OAuth 2.0, is the de facto standard for application authorization. With this framework, you can define a flow to grant access to protected resources. More recently, OAuth 2.1 consolidated the standard by defining security best practices such as Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) and exact URI matching. This way, OAuth…
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