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The fact that the boilerplate app includes working examples of using the various Facebook APIs is the icing on the cake, as far as I'm concerned. I wrote a coup
by stevenbedrick 15y ago
The fact that the boilerplate app includes working examples of using the various Facebook APIs is the icing on the cake, as far as I'm concerned. I wrote a couple of apps back in the relatively early days of the API, and I remember being very frustrated by the state of the documentation and the lack of useful examples[1], and something like this would have saved me an absurd amount of time.
1: It's been a few years since I last had to do this, so the situation might have improved since then.
- brlewis 15y agoThe graph API did improve the situation a lot, but when I worked with it last December (creating albums, posting photos) I did encounter a gap or two in the documentation. OAuth2 is definitely simpler than the old home-grown authentication system, which I never used because it looks insecure: They sign a string formed by concatenating name/value pairs without a delimiter between pairs.
- devillej 15y agoIt hasn't. You have to have a lot of knowhow to get these things working reliably. I'm extremely impressed with this effort.