Authentication usually is very important part in any application. You can always implement your own authentication system, but it will require a lot of work, registration, forgot password form, etc…

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Learn how to implement Google OAuth2 authentication in a Go application by creating a simple web page with login functionality. The guide walks you through creating a Google OAuth2 project, obtaining client ID and secret, setting up handlers, and integrating OAuth2 in a single main.go file. Highlights include saving ID and secret in environment variables and using token to get user info.

Getting Started with OAuth2 in Go

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