Creating your first project

A project represents an application you're building against the Cohabit API. Each project gets its own OAuth client_id and client_secret — these are the credentials your application uses to authenticate.

Create a project

1. Log in and open your Dashboard.
2. Click New project and give it a name.
3. Add the redirect URI(s) your application will use to receive the authorization code.
4. Save — your client_id and client_secret are generated immediately.

Keep your client_secret private. It's shown once in full; after that, the dashboard only shows a masked value. If you lose it, you can rotate it from the project page.

What you can do with these credentials

Your project's credentials let your application authenticate against Cohabit Authentication using the authorization code flow, so users can log in and grant your application access on their behalf.