And then the external site sends an HTTP request (with access token for authentication) to Facebook’s API. Facebook then asks you whether to provide the details or not.

With Tuesday’s release of Flow, an open source static type checker, Facebook engineers are continuing their recent efforts to seed the community at large with tools built in-house. “Flow adds ...

Following the updates to Instagram and Messenger that delivered cross-app communication and other features, Facebook today announced its Messenger API has also been updated to allow businesses to ...

A Facebook application programming interface called isInputPending will be available in Chrome 87 and may help speed up content loading. The isInputPending API started as an origin trail in 2019 ...

Google has started indexing AJAX and JavaScript content. This includes, for example, the Facebook Comments Box many sites use to power their commenting system.

The React project originated at Facebook; the open source project has a BSD license and a patent rights grant from Facebook. React is not an end-to-end JavaScript application framework.

Following the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal and the more recent discovery of a Facebook app that had been leaking data on 120 million users, Facebook is today announcing a number of API ...

Google’s Angular and Facebook’s React are the two most popular frameworks for building applications with JavaScript, the standard language for writing code that runs in your browser, as ...