A video to help new developers get started on WeChat advanced mode (APIs)
WeChat enables very powerful APIs for Official Accounts owners… but until recently the documentation was quite poor, creating loads of questions in the marketing and dev communities in China. Over the past years we have all learned a lot thanks to the support of our friends, and of course loads of trial & error.
We have trained WeChat Developers for a while (see this network if you’re looking for one just now: https://www.wechatdevelopers.com/).
Today we are very happy to help all future WeChat developers, with the hope to help startups customizing their WeChat accounts with advanced features.
Le Wagon Shanghai welcomed Gregoire Thiebault, CTO @ 31Ten to run a unique coding workshop in Shanghai, aiming to guide the participants on the WeChat environment.
In the video below, watch Greg working with WeChat APIs and guiding you through the very first steps:
- setup your dev environment
- customize the share links
- build a trackable QR code
- send a push message
✅ Get ready to code!
Find Greg’s open-source code (PHP/JS) on Github… fork it, star it!
https://github.com/31ten/wechat-intro-tuto
✅ Take away the slides!
They are available to download:
http://www.pptplus.cn/index.php?m=ppt&a=detail&id=4068
✅ Pre-requisite / resources to look at:
Official Account Backend
https://mp.weixin.qq.com
Documentation (recent)
OA getting started guide
JS-SDK documentation
Chinese Documentation (JSSDK + OA Api)
Official Demo of all the JSSDK functionalities
Developers tools
Sandbox testing Account
Signature calculator to compare the generated signature and its parameters
Official Web debug tool
API Daily Counter 开发 > 接口权限 (Last menu tab on the developer group tab on the official account backend)
✅ English tutorials to read
- How to add your developer as an operator to your Official Account
- How to setup the dev environment & use the Sandbox Official Account
- Wechat Bible for Brands : Whitepaper on what can wechat APIs do
AGENDA
00:10:08 — Greg’s rant about the difficulties to develop in WeChat
00:19:51 — Part 1: JS-SDK
00:20:20 — The most difficult part in WeChat: the setup!
00:27:31 — Watch Greg setup & implement the Custom Share Link
01:16:00 — Part 2: Official Accounts
01:20:20 — Watch Greg build a custom QR code & push a message
🎥 The workshop in video (01:39:00)
QUESTIONS?
Get in touch: shanghai@lewagon.org
NEED SOME HELP?
Hire someone: https://www.wechatdevelopers.com/
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