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I've seen multiple tools for working with node.js and facebook connect. However many of them seem incomplete, overly-complex (non abstract) or no longer updated/maintained.
I've found these three projects:
https://github.com/DracoBlue/node-facebook-client
https://github.com/dominiek/node-facebook
https://github.com/egorFiNE/facebook-connect
https://github.com/ciaranj/node-oauth
Here one of the authors even discusses why he once again rolled his own, due to shortcomings in other implementations:
http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/bb46cb08e51fdda6
Does anyone have any real experience actually authenticating users and storing their facebook id's in their database using node.js and facebook connect?
I have a feeling that the answer is pretty much no and I'll have to build on top of one of the above systems to make things much simpler, but I wanted to check first.
Edit: Note make sure you use the STABLE version of node.js
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Did you not find ciaranj's connect-auth
const fbId = ""; #x
const fbSecret = ""; #y
const fbCallbackAddress= "http://localhost:4000/auth/facebook";
//var RedisStore = require('connect-redis');
var express= require('express');
var auth= require('connect-auth')
var app = express.createServer();
app.configure(function(){
app.use(express.cookieDecoder());
app.use(express.logger());
//app.use(connect.session({ store: new RedisStore({ maxAge: 10080000 }) }));
app.use(express.session());
app.use(auth( [
auth.Facebook({appId : fbId, appSecret: fbSecret, scope: "email", callback: fbCallbackAddress})
]) );
});
app.get('/logout', function(req, res, params) {
req.logout();
res.writeHead(303, { 'Location': "/" });
res.end('');
});
app.get('/', function(req, res, params) {
if( !req.isAuthenticated() ) {
res.send('<html> \n\
<head> \n\
<title>connect Auth -- Not Authenticated</title> \n\
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect/en_US/core.js"></script> \n\
</head><body> \n\
<div id="wrapper"> \n\
<h1>Not authenticated</h1> \n\
<div class="fb_button" id="fb-login" style="float:left; background-position: left -188px"> \n\
<a href="/auth/facebook" class="fb_button_medium"> \n\
<span id="fb_login_text" class="fb_button_text"> \n\
Connect with Facebook \n\
</span> \n\
</a> \n\
</div></body></html>');
} else {
res.send( JSON.stringify( req.getAuthDetails()) );
}
});
// Method to handle a sign-in with a specified method type, and a url to go back to ...
app.get('/auth/facebook', function(req,res) {
req.authenticate(['facebook'], function(error, authenticated) {
if(authenticated ) {
res.send("<html><h1>Hello Facebook user:" + JSON.stringify( req.getAuthDetails() ) + ".</h1></html>")
}
else {
res.send("<html><h1>Facebook authentication failed :( </h1></html>")
}
});
});
app.listen(4000);
51
I find passport-facebook fairly simple and useful.
I also like that the core passport module has 80+ auth strategies.
(e.g. twitter, google, foursquare, github, digg, dropbox).
From the creator's github README:
// Set up the strategy
passport.use(new FacebookStrategy({
clientID: FACEBOOK_APP_ID,
clientSecret: FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET,
callbackURL: "http://localhost:3000/auth/facebook/callback"
},
function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) {
User.findOrCreate({ facebookId: profile.id }, function (err, user) {
return done(err, user);
});
}
));
// Use the authentication
app.get('/auth/facebook',
passport.authenticate('facebook'),
function(req, res){
// The request will be redirected to Facebook for authentication, so
// this function will not be called.
});
app.get('/auth/facebook/callback',
passport.authenticate('facebook', { failureRedirect: '/login' }),
function(req, res) {
// Successful authentication, redirect home.
res.redirect('/');
});
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