Built a Nice Simple Clojure/Bootstrap/Google App
Over the course of the last day and a half, I've been putting together a nice little test app using clojure and compojure on the back-end, and Bootstrap with Handsontable as the UI. It's simple, and not all that complicated, but it's nice in that it demonstrates a lot of the things that I often want to do in a simple application.
Then today one of the guys I was putting this together for suggested OAuth2 for authentication and then something internal for authorization. This turned out to be not all that bad with Google's Identity Service. They have a nice little JavaScript client that gets the auth token that you then feed to the calls to the service, and it, in turn, hits Google to make sure that this is a person that they say they are. You end up with an email address, and that can be used as the "username" for any authorization scheme you want.
In short, it's very slick. Works like a dream. I'm having a pretty good time with this.
