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Best development environment for Facebook applications (FMBL and FBJS support)

I have a reasonable workflow for developing an iFrame application for Facebook. This is reasonable because I can test the application on a local host with local Apache in any of the many integrated IDEs that support HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Visual Web Developer, NetBeans, Komodo, Aptana).

But what if I want to develop an application without an iFrame with FBML? Is there a Facebook application development environment “locally” without uploading my work over and over to Facebook?

For those involved in programming Facebook applications in FBML, did you come up with a system for working with a reasonable turnover?

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You do not need an IDE; you need port forwarding.

Set up the local port so that it is publicly available so that you can run and test your Facebook application on the local development server.

When I was developing FB, I had one test application and one real application.

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Like Andrew, I have my real application, which contains the current version, and I have an isolated application that I use to deploy test versions of the application. Facebook restricts isolated applications so that only developers can see them, so it allows me to test the latest changes on facebook.

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Embercadero's RadPHPXE2 IDE has facebook application development packages

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