{"id":2351,"date":"2025-05-16T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.cevolution.co.uk\/ciam\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:03:57","slug":"vibe-coded-authn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery.cevolution.co.uk\/ciam\/2025\/05\/16\/vibe-coded-authn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vibe Coding Authentication via Authorization Code Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 15<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

Developers often ask the question, “How do I go about integrating CIAM<\/span> standards like OIDC<\/span> and OAuth 2.0<\/span> into my application?” Invariably, for the majority of use cases, the answer is “Integrate via an application-independent IdP, using Authorization Code Flow<\/em> (a.k.a. the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Flow<\/em> grant type)”. But what does that actually mean? What is Authorization Code Flow<\/em>, and how do you go about integrating it into your code?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other flows \u2014 as in other grant types \u2014 are available, and you can read more about those here<\/a>. However, using Authorization Code Flow is the recommended best practice for most user interactive situations (i.e. Login<\/span>).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

In a previous article, I talked about architecting a CIAM solution<\/a> and how a Buy or DIY (Deploy It Yourself) approach is typically preferable to a Build-it-yourself one. My name’s Peter Fernandez<\/span>, and whichever approach you prefer, in this article \u2014 together with its accompanying video \u2014 I’m going to talk about using Authorization Code Flow and how to utilise it “a-la Vibe style” when integrating OIDC<\/span> to provide CIAM Authentication<\/a> in your B2C <\/span>or B2B<\/span> SaaS solution \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For B2C and B2B SaaS solutions, the use of Authorization Code Flow is also the recommended best practice when it comes to integrating Delegated Authorization<\/span> and Access Control<\/a>, but for now, we’ll just stick with Authentication.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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