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September 2020

How to Incorporate Facebook OAuth 2.0

There is no debate that the advent of OAuth 2.0 made the lives of developers everywhere better. OAuth 2.0 makes adding an authentication system to your app or web page became considerably easy. Many different service providers support the OAuth 2.0 spec and, in turn, so does DreamFactory. Below are the supported OAuth services DreamFactory which are supported natively.

Executing SQL Joins in REST APIs Using DreamFactory

As a follow up to our previous blog post about retrieving related data from that REST API, I wanted to dive deeper into the power of the “related records” feature of DreamFactory’s database-backed APIs. One of the powerful features of SQL databases is the ability to relate separate data records and perform queries that retrieve that related data all at once. One problem is that this requires a fairly in-depth knowledge of your database, it’s schema, and SQL syntax.

Managing DreamFactory Scripted APIs with GitHub and Your Favorite IDE

DreamFactory's scripted service feature ranks among the most popular capabilities, allowing developers to create APIs using PHP, Python, or NodeJS which can then be secured using role-based access controls, accessed using auto-generated API keys or other authentication providers such as Active Directory and Okta, and executed alongside other APIs as part of an API composition-based workflow.