Deploying Your First Facebook App : Guide With Practical Example

Deploying Your First Facebook App by Free hosting it on Heroku Cloud and following the basic guides you can easily run your own Facebook application easily. The basic principle behind very complex application or just a simple Facebook application is actually the same. In this article guide on Deploying Your First Facebook App, we have divided the flow of information in to two parts – first is the basic principles for Deploying Your First Facebook App and second is the technical details, of which most we have discussed before in various guides and videos.

 

Deploying Your First Facebook App : Basic Principles

 

First you need to register your Application’s name and url through Facebook – that is exactly what we described before in Creating a Facebook App of Your Own guide.

Second part is the Facebook SDK and the App. You will get enough resources on Facebook Developers portal on how to secure your App – probably you will want to implement Facebook login session. The most important part is the Application itself. You can search in GitHub or SourceForge like websites for any small basic App to test your work. Download the sourcecode, you can deploy it without any modification as you need to test yourself first. After 2-3 time working, it will be very easy for you to work with git.

 

Deploying Your First Facebook App : Example App we have deployed

 

For example, we have deployed this Drawing Canvas Application, its a very basic application :

 

 

https://apps.facebook.com/drawing-canvas/ 

 

What we basically did is – we actually modified an Open Source repo (link there), customized it, cloned the default Facebook PHP app, modified the app on our computer and then pushed it via Heroku Toolbelt through command line :

 

We actually have a better guide for the same purpose for installing WordPress on Heroku Cloud. If you still up to day had any issue or felt difficultly, we guess this clearing up in a guide form will work for both the beginners and the peoples are trying but somehow can not complete their target.