GitHub API Authentication using OAuth 2.0

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OAuth 2.0 has been a supported authentication scheme in Insomnia for some time now but – if you are new to OAuth – can still be quite complicated. This post explains walks through an example of using OAuth 2.0 to authenticate and create a repository on GitHub using the GitHub API. If you don't already have a GitHub OAuth application registered for your account, you can create a one from Developer Settings Note, "