#360 Facebook Authentication

ASCIIcast 360 - Facebook Authentication

One of the easiest ways to add Facebook to an application is to use their social plugins and with these we can add a “Like” button, a comments section and more. If we want something that’s a little more integrated into the core functionality of our site these won’t really work for us so instead we’ll register our app on the Facebook developers site . Doing this will allow us to communicate with Facebook’s Graph API and their Open Graph platform. To register our app we just need to click the “Create New App” button on the developers page and give our app a name and a namespace. We’ll choose “Cinematron” for both of these but it’s important that the namespace is unique across all Facebook apps so you might need to try a few variations on your application’s name to find an unused one. Facebook has partnered up with Heroku for hosting web applications and if we check the box a...

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