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AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints

You're reading from   AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints A practical guide to developing powerful web applications with AngularJS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783285617
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinci J Rufus Vinci J Rufus
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to AngularJS and the Single Page Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Rig 3. Rapid Prototyping with AngularJS 4. Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App 5. Facebook Friends' Birthday Reminder App 6. Building an Expense Manager Mobile App 7. Building a CMS on the MEAN Stack 8. Scalable Architecture for Deployments on AWS 9. Building an E-Commerce Store A. AngularJS Resources Index

Adding a Facebook login


Using the Facebook JavaScript SDK, we are going to create our very own directive for the Facebook login. We could simply copy and paste the sample Facebook login code available on the developer portal into our index.html file, and it would just work. However, this wouldn't be a clean approach. Instead, using directives helps to make the code abstract, thus keeping it clean, and once you have your own directive, it becomes quite easy to add the Facebook login into any of your other projects.

Now, let's try and get our Facebook login to work.

Adding the fb-root div element

Whenever we use the JavaScript SDK for Facebook, it's important that we have an empty <div> element with an ID named fb-root just after the <body> tag. The SDK uses this <div> element to insert other elements as needed.

Let's open up our app/index.html file and add the following highlighted <div> element:

<body>
    <div id="fb-root"></div>

In case you don't create...

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