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Creating new users from OAuth data

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Creating new users from OAuth data

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- [Speaker] Alright, so now that we're loading the user's info from Google, the last function that we're going to create here that should complete our callback URL here is going to be a function for basically taking that user. And there's really two possibilities here, right? One is that the user just logged in with Google OAuth and they've never logged into our site before in any other way, right? And the second possibility here is that they've already logged in with like their email and password and now they're logging in and sort of like linking their account by logging in with Google. So really we just have to take those two possibilities into account here. Here's what that's going to look like. We're going to define our function here called Update or Create User from OAuth. Kind of a complicated name there, but it pretty much describes the different possibilities here. And we're just going to pass the OAuth user info here as an argument. And what we're going to do, first of all…

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