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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

Overview of this book

Single-page web applications—or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to—are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing. Also, the accelerated growth of browser capabilities is pushing us closer to the day when all apps will run entirely in the browser. This book will take your JavaScript development skills to the next level by teaching you to create a single-page application within a full-stack JavaScript environment. Using only JavaScript, you can go from being a front-end developer to a full-stack application developer with relative ease. You will learn to cross the boundary from front-end development to server-side development through the use of JavaScript on both ends. Use your existing knowledge of JavaScript by learning to manage a JSON document data store with MongoDB, writing a JavaScript powered REST API with Node.js and Express, and designing a front-end powered by AngularJS. This book will teach you to leverage the MEAN stack to do everything from document database design, routing REST web API requests, data-binding within views, and adding authentication and security to building a full-fledged, complex, single-page web application. In addition to building a full-stack JavaScript app, you will learn to test it with JavaScript-powered testing tools such as Mocha, Karma, and Jasmine. Finally, you will learn about deployment and scaling so that you can launch your own apps into the real world.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Organized with NPM, Bower, and Grunt
13
Testing with Mocha, Karma, and More

Connecting to Facebook


We are going to begin integration with social media by allowing users to create accounts and log in using their Facebook accounts. The first things we need to do are to set up a Facebook developer account and build a Facebook app.

Setting up your Facebook developer account and app

In order to authenticate users using Facebook, you have to have a Facebook app. Fortunately, Facebook makes setting this up really easy.

If you do not have a Facebook developer account, head over to https://developers.facebook.com/ right now and sign up for a developer account. Just follow the instructions and agree to the terms of service. Next, we need to set up an app. From the developers' dashboard, select Add New App from the My Apps dropdown. You'll get a modal window that looks like the following screenshot:

Select Website:

Give your new app a name and select Create New Facebook App ID:

Choose a category for your new app (any one will do, really). Make sure to leave off the selection...