Add authentication to your Electron app in three calls

The tutorial explains how to implement desktop authentication in an Electron application using `@workos/authkit-electron`, which centralizes OAuth PKCE handling, deep-link callbacks, IPC communication, encrypted token storage, and session management across Electron’s main, preload, and renderer processes. It outlines creating an Electron-Vite React app, configuring a WorkOS public OAuth client with a custom `workos-auth://callback` redirect URI and logout URI, and placing the client ID in the main-process environment without using an API key. The main process owns refresh tokens and registers the custom protocol, the preload script exposes a restricted typed authentication bridge, and the React renderer uses provider hooks to sign users in and out, display auth state and errors, retrieve short-lived access tokens for backend API calls, and switch organizations. Authentication can use the system browser for stronger browser-session integration or an embedded child window for a fully in-app flow, while packaged applications must declare the custom protocol in their build configuration. The SDK emphasizes security by keeping refresh tokens out of renderers, encrypting persistent sessions with Electron safeStorage, sealing and validating PKCE state, limiting renderer-facing IPC payloads, synchronizing authentication changes across windows, and clearing local sessions even if remote logout cannot complete.

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