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Vuetify app with Wikimedia OAuth login

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Do you often find yourself wanting to make a basic (or complex) web app that is client side only and will log users into Wikimedia sites with ease? Me to!

I have been trying this every year or so, and it’s gradually been getting easier. This year it only took me a couple of to get a really nice template web app setup using Vue, Vuetify and a OAuth 2.0 Wikimedia consumer (thanks to the OAuth extension).

Firstly, some links that you’ll find useful:

Starting off with a default Vuetify app install using vite (commit c3edb0f), you’ll end up with a basic web page that just says welcome to Vuetify. You can copy the code in my commit, or just follow the Vuetify instructions.

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Laravel 8 with Wikimedia OAuth login

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I recently wrote a little app called wikicrowd (blog post to follow) using Laravel and MediaWiki / Wikimedia authentication. It certainly wasn’t entirely out of the box, and the existing docs still need some tweaking.

This post reflects the steps I went through to set this app up, and it should only take a few minutes.

You can find a tag of the code at the end of this walkthrough on Github for PHP 8. (There is also a tag for PHP 7.4)

Shout out to the developers that worked on the Wikidata Mismatch Finder which is also a Laravel app with MediaWiki OAuth and was used as inspiration when writing this post, along with the documentation for the package used by Taavi.

Setup Laravel

First off I need a Laravel installation. Currently 8.x is the stream of the latest versions, and the installation docs say to run the below command.

curl -s https://laravel.build/demo-laravel-mediawiki-auth | bashCode language: JavaScript (javascript)

I’m not a fan of running random code on the internet on my machine, but this is what the docs say. It creates a directory at the location you specify at the end of the URL, in my case demo-laravel-mediawiki-auth , creates a laravel/laravel project, and does a composer install.

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