Last week Facebook launched its bot-enabled Messenger Platform. I decided to check it out and build a simple Salesforce bot for Messenger. This is not an official project, just a quick experiment to explore the possibilities. Watch the video to see the bot in action: or using the phone version of Messenger: Bots allow you […]
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Sample Mobile Application with React and Cordova
I recently spent some time playing with React, Facebook’s JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. The term “UI Framework” means different things to different people: In the case of React, it’s a framework that makes it easy to build and compose UI components; it is not a library of out-of-the-box UI components. Some key characteristics […]
Sociogram: A Sample Application demonstrating AngularJS/Ionic and Facebook Integration
About a year ago, I blogged Sociogram, a starter project demonstrating how to integrate with Facebook in your mobile and web applications. A year later, it’s time for a makeover: Here is a brand new version of Sociogram, built with AngularJS, Ionic, and the OpenFB micro-library I shared earlier this week. Sociogram is a sample […]

Cordova/PhoneGap Facebook Integration without Plugin
Many consumer apps provide a Facebook Login option, as well as other Facebook integration features such as posting to your feed, getting your list of friends, etc. Cordova has a Facebook Plugin that makes that integration easy. Internally, the plugin uses both the Native and the JavaScript implementations of the Facebook SDK, and historically, it […]

Sociogram Mobile: A Starter-Kit Application for PhoneGap and Facebook Integration
A few weeks ago I shared Sociogram, a sample application that demonstrates how to use the Facebook JavaScript SDK and the Graph API. A number of people have asked me for a Mobile version of the application. So here is Sociogram Mobile: a sample application that demonstrates how to integrate Facebook social features in a […]

Sociogram: A Sample Application Exploring the Facebook SDK and the Graph API
I’ve recently been working on a few applications that integrate with Facebook. As a reference for myself and other developers building similar applications, I thought it would be useful to put together a sample application that demonstrates some commonly used integration scenarios and workflows when using the Facebook JavaScript SDK and the Graph API. So, […]