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Lift Application Development Cookbook

By : Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun
Book Image

Lift Application Development Cookbook

By: Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun

Overview of this book

Developing secure web applications is one of the most important tasks developers have to deal with. With Lift, it is easy to create solid and formidable web applications as it is the most secure web framework available today. The View-First approach and being able to handle things as purely data transformation, makes working with Lift an exciting task. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" teaches you how to build web applications using this amazing framework. The book moves gradually, starting with the basics (starting a new project, submitting a form, and so on) before covering more advanced topics such as building a REST API and integrating your application with other technologies and applications. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" takes you on a journey of creating secure web applications. Step-by-step instructions help you understand how things work and how various elements relate to each other. You'll learn different ways to process a form, build dynamic HTML pages, and create an API using REST. You'll also learn how to work with relational and NoSQL databases and how to integrate your application with other technologies as well as with third-part applications such as Gmail and Facebook. By the end of the book, you will be able to understand how Lift works and be able to build web applications using this amazing and exciting framework.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Lift Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Social media is an important part of our daily lives, so much so that we use our accounts not only for interaction with our friends or colleagues, but also to log in on several online services and then share information from the social media account with the service you signed up for. This is called social login, and the OAuth protocol is used to authenticate the user and to obtain access the user's data.

There are two versions of the OAuth protocol. The first version is referred to as OAuth, while the second one is known as OAuth2. The version that will be used to share information will depend on the third-party application you are integrating with. For example, Facebook provides an API that uses OAuth2 but Twitter does not. So you can use OAuth2 to integrate your application with Facebook; but to integrate with Twitter, you need to use OAuth.

In this chapter, we will learn how to build such interaction between social media such as Facebook and Twitter with an application...