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Allow users to generate and save OAuth2 tokens

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, react, redux, wordpress

Research direction

Start by reading the WordPress.com OAuth2 documentation and the application-management page linked in the issue, then inspect the React/Redux console entry points. The feature is done when a WP.com user can choose a configured application, generate OAuth2 tokens, and save them for use in the console; the previous discussion links may provide context.

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Description

Let's add a feature to this version of the console that allows users (on WP.com) to choose one of their applications configured at https://developer.wordpress.com/apps/, generate OAuth2 tokens, and save them.

Currently we don't provide an easy way for users to do this - we expect them to implement our OAuth2 flow themselves. GitHub and Twitter make this much easier, and it would be a really good usability improvement for our API.

Previous discussion:

  • p3hLNG-IW-p2
  • p3hLNG-gs-p2
Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
73
Forks
23
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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