Question

I took the facebook example but it does use the old versions of libraries and i had to use newer version of express as i use node v0.6.6. When i try to start the app i get Error: Cannot find module ‘restler’. Has anyone got this working with newer versions ?

Answer 1

take a look at the Heroku documentation especially Declare Dependencies With NPM
section.

After checking your package.json I saw that you are using old packages, facebook-client is right now at the version 1.6.0 (think about choosing a different wrapper for your graph requests like fbgraph).

The facebook-template-node package is clearly outdated, use it only as a reference (environment variables, Heroku custom files like the Procfile).

Programming node.js you should avoid old packages (unless you have a good reason and know how to fork/vendor and fix them) since the core api is changing on every major version (even if there are only small incompatibilities between 0.4.x and 0.6.x).

For a recent project involving facebook I used authom for authentication and fbgraph (actively maintained and pretty lightweight) as the API consumer.

As final advice, look for the package under active development (and look the the sources and tests), fix/fork/avoid the others.