VS code Extension : How to add an authentication to plugin

Question

I want to develop an extension for VS code. It gonna save and store the highlighted commands to the extension state store. This part is ready :)

What I want to do now is try to understand whether I can store these commands on top of VS code state in my existing backend So, I need to somehow build some authentication logic

Is there a way to build the authentication process into an extension?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65882770/vs-code-extension-how-to-add-an-authentication-to-plugin

Answer 1

Here is my scenario used in the extension Docs-validation:
We provide a sign-in button inside the VS CODE, when the user clicks that button, we will redirect the user to a browser to do the auth, after that, an auth token will be sent back to the extension, which will be used to call our backend API. The main logic can be found in this file

Actually, this is inspired by the built-in sign-in experience of the VS Code and some extension with a sign-in experience like azure-cli, you can see from here: