Salesforce Headless Identity Login Example

This week I helped a colleague doing an example of how to use the Salesforce Headless Login flow from a single page app (SPA). The Github repo describes how to configure the Salesforce org (a scratch org) and how to use the included SPA – just a super simple HTML page really – to do a headless login against the Salesforce org. The login uses PKCE to further secure the exchange. Once the login has been performed the obtained access token is used to get information about the user from the /services/oauth2/userinfo endpoint.

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