In our first part of these tutorials, we added our application to Facebook. The reason that we do this is so that Facebook will allow our application to not only be useable on their platform, but to allow our application to use data stored in Facebook. Before we dive into server-side development, let’s take a look at the client-side platform – the JavaScript SDK.
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Facebook apps are a part of society now. From fancy flash games to simple polls, almost everyone uses them. There will come a time in your development career where you will have to build something that interacts with Facebook. I’m on my second one this week, and a third one starting next week.
Facebook has tried to foster a developer community through SDKs and development wikis, but much of this information is spread out. Over the next few posts, I’ll take a look at building a basic Facebook app from end-to-end in an attempt to gather many of the answers I’ve found over the last week.
First we need to tell Facebook about our application…
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