On January 28th, Facebook announced that it was shutting down Parse, the popular Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), in January 2017, after having purchased it for a reported $85M in 2013. Thousands of mobile apps and services rely on Parse, and if yours is one of...
As 2014 winds down, we’re taking an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time. Vlad Orlenko wrote a couple of great posts on integrating social logins and posting with web apps written using the...
This tutorial is the first part of a series of tutorials that build a complete Django application, codenamed procrastination automation. The tutorial on Python Social Authentication can be considered a preface to this series – if you would like an introduction...
I needed to add Facebook authentication to a Django app today, and instead of writing it directly against the Facebook API (or re-implementing the OAuth2 dance again), I decided to look around and see if there’s a pre-packaged solution for this common task. Turns out,...
