auth with GitHub using nuxt auth module

Editing with info for anyone who wants to help with this one.

There are a few ways to connect to GitHub APIs.

One is using a static personal access token (mine), which is stored as an environment variable and deployed to the Netlify Function (AWS Lambda function) that connects to GitHub.

Another way is to have a user of the site "Login with GitHub", they then get an Acess Token which can be stored in the memory of the frontend application (not in cookies or local storage), then sent through to the Netlify Function whenever they make a request. Not only for this purpose, but it also will provide the users GitHub profile information, to enrich the experience on the site (i.e. they could track their entire Hacktoberfest progress).

There are packages like nuxt-auth that will make some of this work easier, but from my own experimentation, those packages offered incomplete solutions. I believe I was closest with nuxt-auth, which appeared to be using an auth code grant, but I should have created a new Netlify Function to act as the backend to exchange the authorization code for an access token.

GitHub has some guides on building an OAuth application.