diff --git a/osmchadjango/users/views.py b/osmchadjango/users/views.py
index f388f19d..29a34b6c 100644
--- a/osmchadjango/users/views.py
+++ b/osmchadjango/users/views.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.conf import settings
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
 from rest_framework.generics import (
@@ -77,14 +78,39 @@ class SocialAuthAPIView(GenericAPIView):
     base_oauth2_url = "{}/oauth2".format(settings.OSM_SERVER_URL)
     token_url = "{}/token".format(base_oauth2_url)
     auth_url = "{}/authorize".format(base_oauth2_url)
-    consumer = OAuth2Session(
-        client_id=settings.SOCIAL_AUTH_OPENSTREETMAP_OAUTH2_KEY,
-        scope=settings.SOCIAL_AUTH_OPENSTREETMAP_OAUTH2_SCOPE,
-        redirect_uri=settings.OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI,
-    )
 
-    def get_access_token(self, code):
-        return self.consumer.fetch_token(
+    def get_redirect_uri(self, request):
+        """
+        Get the redirect URI for the OAuth flow.
+
+        Normally, after login we ask the OAuth provider to redirect back to
+        osmcha.org (or whatever domain you're running OSMCha at). But to allow
+        developers to run the frontend locally while using the production server
+        as the backend, we have a special case for when the HTTP Origin header
+        has a hostname of localhost or 127.0.0.1. In those cases we redirect
+        back to that hostname.
+        """
+        origin = request.META.get('HTTP_ORIGIN')
+        if origin:
+            try:
+                url = urlparse(origin)
+                if url.hostname in {'127.0.0.1', 'localhost'}:
+                    return f"{origin}/authorized"
+            except (ValueError, AttributeError):
+                pass
+        return settings.OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI
+
+    def get_oauth_consumer(self, request, state=None):
+        return OAuth2Session(
+            client_id=settings.SOCIAL_AUTH_OPENSTREETMAP_OAUTH2_KEY,
+            scope=settings.SOCIAL_AUTH_OPENSTREETMAP_OAUTH2_SCOPE,
+            redirect_uri=self.get_redirect_uri(request),
+            state=state,
+        )
+
+    def get_access_token(self, request, code):
+        consumer = self.get_oauth_consumer(request)
+        return consumer.fetch_token(
             token_url=self.token_url,
             code=code,
             client_secret=settings.SOCIAL_AUTH_OPENSTREETMAP_OAUTH2_SECRET,
@@ -95,7 +121,7 @@ def get_user_token(self, request, access_token, *args, **kwargs):
         backend = load_backend(
             strategy=load_strategy(request),
             name="openstreetmap-oauth2",
-            redirect_uri=settings.OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI,
+            redirect_uri=self.get_redirect_uri(request),
         )
         user = backend.do_auth(access_token, *args, **kwargs)
         token, created = Token.objects.get_or_create(user=user)
@@ -103,13 +129,14 @@ def get_user_token(self, request, access_token, *args, **kwargs):
 
     def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
         if 'code' not in request.data.keys() or not request.data['code']:
-            login_url, state = self.consumer.authorization_url(self.auth_url)
+            consumer = self.get_oauth_consumer(request)
+            login_url, state = consumer.authorization_url(self.auth_url)
             return Response({"auth_url": login_url, "state": state})
         else:
             serializer = self.get_serializer(data=request.data)
             serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
             access_token = self.get_access_token(
-                request.data['code'],
+                request, request.data['code'],
                 ).get('access_token')
             return Response(self.get_user_token(request, access_token))