Registering your application with Facebook

In order to register our client application with Facebook, we need to go to the Facebook Developers page. At the time of this writing, this is located at https://developers.facebook.com/.

From here, you can create your Facebook application and configure its settings.

Creating your application

Let's start by creating our application. The application creation page looks something like this:

Creating your application

Tip

Display name and namespace are not OAuth 2.0 properties. Rather, these are good examples of Facebook-specific application properties which they likely use for their own application management. Fill in whatever values you ...

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