If you’ve ever done authentication in a Laravel-based project then you probably had to deal with the Socialite extension, which enables OAuth-based authentication using third-party services (like Google or Facebook).
Passing dynamic data to the external OAuth system and getting that data back to your application, using Socialite, is something neither easily done nor well documented and given that I’ve seen a lot of people wasting time on this, I want to try and shed some light on it here.
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