chore: improve documentation of client credential authentication options#2117
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This PR enhances the client credentials authentication documentation by reorganizing content and adding clearer guidance on obtaining and using credentials. The changes make the documentation more user-friendly by presenting both UI and API approaches upfront, and by prominently featuring the recommended @inrupt/solid-client-authn-node Session-based authentication method.
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- Restructured the "Generating a token" section to clearly distinguish between UI-based and API-based token generation
- Added a new "Using the token to authenticate" section with two options: the recommended Session-based approach using
@inrupt/solid-client-authn-nodeand the manual token negotiation approach - Reorganized existing manual token negotiation content under the new structure as "Option B"
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This PR improves the documentation for client credentials authentication to make it clearer that:
Session#loginfrom@inrupt/solid-client-auth-nodeto authenticate with the credentials