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Alex Foxleigh
Alex Foxleigh

Reputation: 1974

Should I use GitHub OAuth or a GitHub App?

I'm building a nodejs command-line tool which takes the output from a client and pushes it to a GitHub repo and raise a PR.

The purpose behind it is that our users need to produce something that our team can process as code but our users are not coders, therefore they only need to complete a form and the code will be created for them. When they submit the form it will give them a preview of the code (on the off chance they know what they are doing but mostly to make them feel like coders) but in the background, it will push that code to a repo and raise a PR so we as developers get alerted to the new code. GitHub is being used for version-control and diffing abilities and is a specific request from the powers that be.

The users will not have GitHub accounts and really shouldn't even need to be aware that any GitHub stuff is happening so we don't want them to have to authenticate, instead we'd want the server itself to authenticate with GitHub using a token.

My question is, should it be an oAuth token or a GitHub app token? Apologies if it's a dumb question, not worked with Octokit before.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 344

Answers (2)

Ashys_radicle
Ashys_radicle

Reputation: 1

i am also facing same situation.

what i read about OAuth App is if you want to use third application and using github identity to sign in . In this case you use OAUTH app.

While Github APP, if you want to access the github organisation repo or github user specific stuff.

Please correct me.Also share your scenario for more understanding.

Upvotes: -1

Lockna
Lockna

Reputation: 781

In my opinion you should choose oAuth token :)

Upvotes: 2

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