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title: Application Developer Considerations
description: The application developer will be responsible for the user-facing elements of the process. They will need to authenticate the user and interface with the back-end APIs.
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# Application Developer Considerations

The application developer will be responsible for the user-facing elements of the process. They will need to authenticate the user and interface with the back-end APIs.

There are three main actions an application developer needs to handle to implement OAuth 2.0:

* Get an access token

* Use an access token

* Refresh an access token (optional)