People using your web app also use many other online services. You'll often want to pull data from those other services into your app, or publish data from your app out to other services. In this talk, Randy will explain the terminology you need to know, share best practices and techniques for integrating, and walk through two real-world examples. You'll leave with code snippets to help you get started integrating.
3. Overview
• APIs: Defined
• Three Examples:
1. Get Treehouse Badges
2. Get ShopLocket Products
3. Post Facebook & Twitter Updates
• Best Practices
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28. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML:
Technique used by the browser to
retrieve data from a server in the
background without interfering with
the existing page
Wikipedia: Ajax, http://trhou.se/defineAJAX
58. OAuth
An open protocol to allow secure
authorization in a simple and standard
method from web, mobile and desktop
applications.
OAuth, http://oauth.net/