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Posted by Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

can l create a facebook but app with just jquery and php.

l am starting to get into facebook apps and wanted to know if it is possible to create one using just php and jquery with any javascript code. l am just trying to skip the long javascript code but less experience and am struggling to know it this can actually be done. any ideas if possible?

3 Answers

shezazr
shezazr
8,275 Points
shezazr
shezazr
8,275 Points

i tried it few years back with PhoneGap and the dynamic aspects weren't working properly. You now have other/newer software so maybe now you can.. (but I wouldn't know)

Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

am curious what those softwares are. care to share light on them mate?

shezazr
shezazr
8,275 Points
shezazr
shezazr
8,275 Points

do a google search... there Xamarin, Tizen and few others that I cannot remember (google search should help you)

Matt Trask
Matt Trask
10,027 Points

Xamarin is an IDE for iOS, Android and Windows app development, I don't think that would really help him build Facebook.

Matt Trask
Matt Trask
10,027 Points
Matt Trask
Matt Trask
10,027 Points

You can be a slower version yes. Facebook was built on PHP, so thats the base. And jQuery will help you get the functionality down. Ive built a Facebook like site with Laravel, pretty easy.

But just know, that after years of having amazing developers, Facebook now runs on a highly tuned platform. They use HHVM, some python, some java and other stuff to help them go faster. I wouldn't be surprised if they have incorporated a JS framework like backbone in there as well.