It’s been an ordeal, but I’ve finally got my Monzo Accounts OAuth extension to work in Meteor. In the future I hope to expand this to wrap the entire Monzo API. Anyone fancy a play?
https://atmospherejs.com/elmarti/accounts-monzo
The key things that really jumped out at me in this process are the following:
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No capacity for non-email based authentication made it impossible to implement a pop-up flow
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Email based authentication made it a nightmare to debug (Maybe there could be a better way just for developers?)
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Redirect oauth flow only - fewer applications implement this, especially in Meteor which made it hard to find similar code to look at
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Monzo’s Oauth is locked down to a whitelist, making me apprehensive to actually use the API for anything.
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The API documentation doesn’t explicitly detail
GETrequests asGETrequests which made it a bit confusing, opting for the phrasing - “call an endpoint”. Not sure if this is a convention, but it made things more confusing whilst trying to debug