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reactordevyesterday at 1:53 PM0 repliesview on HN

Baby steps my guy, baby steps. Yes, I don’t even mention OIDC, but I think the way I explained it was the middle schoolers version we all can understand (even if there are some minor mistakes in nomenclature).

The point I was trying to make at 2am is that it’s not scary or super advanced stuff and that you can get away with OAuth-like (as so many do). But yes, OAuth is authorization, OIDC is authentication. The refresh token is an authorization but it makes sense to people who have never done it to think of it as a “post-login marker”.