November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
343 pages
8h 59m
English
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Chapter 19. Integrating with Third-Party APIs
Increasingly, successful websites are not completely standalone. To engage existing users and find new users, integration with social networking is a must. To provide store locators or other location-aware services, using geolocation and mapping services is essential. It doesn’t stop there: more and more organizations are realizing that providing an API helps expand their service and makes it more useful.
In this chapter, we’ll be discussing the two most common integration needs: social media and geolocation.
Social Media
Social media is a great way to promote your product or service: if that’s your goal, the ability for your users to easily share your content on social media sites is essential. As I write this, the dominant social networking services are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Sites like Pinterest and Flickr have their place, but they are usually a little more audience specific (for example, if your website is about DIY crafting, you would absolutely want to support Pinterest). Laugh if you will, but I predict that MySpace will make a comeback. Its site redesign is inspired, and it’s worth noting that MySpace is built on Node.
Social Media Plugins and Site Performance
Most social media integration is a frontend affair. You reference the appropriate JavaScript files in your page, and it enables both incoming content (the top three stories from your Facebook page, for example) and outgoing content (the ability ...
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