OAuth2 is a client used to communicate with an OAuth 2.0 server. PowAssent has a built-in OAuth 2.0 client too that’s used to connect with google/facebook/etc.
PhoenixOauth2Provider is the OAuth 2.0 server.
danschultzer
Pow Core Team
Owens
OK, that makes sense.
Let me see if I got it.
OAuth2 and PhoenixOauth2Provider don’t actually do any of the same things.
OAuth2 only communicates with OAuth servers/providers (Twitter, Facebook, Google) but is not a provider itself (e.g. it’s not a login system for other apps to use like a native mobile app one might build to go with one’s web app).
PhoenixOauth2Provider creates a provider, and does not need to integrate with Pow.
PowAssent does the same thing as OAuth2 but works out of the box with Pow.
Btw, I noticed OAuth2 package actually depends on PowAssent. Which further confused me about what each does :).
danschultzer
Pow Core Team
You got it.
Yeah, it was used in older pre-release versions of PowAssent. The dependency has been removed since 0.1.0-rc.1.