20 useful Facebook/FBJS developer resources

Brian Dillard, Thursday, January 3, 2008 @ 12:19 pm

The Facebook application platform is less than a year old, and Facebook JavaScript (FBJS) made it out of beta less than four months ago. It's therefore unsurprising that comprehensive developer resources for both are a little thin. Most of the real content comes from official Facebook properties. Still, a little digging helped me uncover some decent tutorials and a wealth of open-source wrapper libraries for Facebook's RESTful API. Interestingly, I didn't uncover any big attempts at Prototype-style FBJS toolkits - just a few scattered examples of utility classes. It seems that Facebook development experience is still enough of a competitive advantage that the experienced few aren't rushing to create helper libraries for their hapless peers.

Facebook Developer Resources

• Facebook Developers: The official developer hub, including news, resources, tools and documentation.
• Facebook Developers Forum: Official discussion and advice list.
• Facebook bug tracker: Includes a wish list for developer tools.
• Facebook Developer Wiki: Includes good FBJS resources.
• FBJS/Animation: Draft documentation for as-yet-unreleased FBJS animation library
• Allfacebook: an unofficial Facebook blog.
• Ajaxian's "social networks" tag: Includes their latest FBJS posts.

Facebook/FBJS Tutorials

• Facebook Developer: Unofficial tutorial and code-snippet site from developer Matt Huggins.
• Facebook developer wiki talk page on FBJS: Archived wiki page that tackles lots of real-world issues faced by early FBJS developers.
• Two-faced Django: A really fantastic tutorial that explores the process of building a webapp with both a Facebook UI and a normal web UI.
• How I created a Facebook application with FBJS: A quick tour of one developer's inaugural FBJS experience.
• Lessons in FBJS: Lessons learned by the author of the previous post.
• fAjax: An Ajax wrapper library for FBJS.
• How to Replace MockAJAX with FBJS:  A tutorial on upgrading from to FBJS from the earlier, more limited MockAJAX API.
• Ajaxian post on FBJS security holes:
• Facelifting the Facebook: Great post on hijacking Facebook's default CSS so you can style your profile a la MySpace.

Wrappers for Facebook's RESTful API

• RFacebook: A Ruby wrapper.
• Facebook.Net: A .Net wrapper.
• PyFacebook: A Python wrapper.
• JavaScript Facebook client library: A JavaScript wrapper.

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