Calling a function requires an organization?

[jawbrey]

I’ve been building a little project with a Photon and having great fun - but now I need to integrate it with a web page. Calling my function from the command line works great.

However, from reading the docs, in order to do this from the web, I need an authentication token. And an authenticaiton token requries me to create an Organization, which costs $50/month?

Am I understanding this correctly?

[rickkas7]

No, an organization is not necessary.

Here's a tutorial I wrote that uses the particle-api-js Javascript API to create authentication tokens and call functions from a web page:

Web Page Sample Code using Particle API JS

I hadn’t used the Particle API JS from a web page yet, so I made a little circuit and little sample web page to test it out. It worked well for me and I thought others might find it useful for tips and tricks. For example, it shows how to do authentication without storing the username and password in the Javascript code and saving the access token so you don’t need to enter your username and password every time without any server-side code, other than the Particle cloud, of course. Here’s the c…

[jawbrey]

thanks!