See where in the world the fBomb was dropped
Fairly basic to set up your own instance of this application.
To set up your own version of this app, all you have to do is clone this repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/mgingras/fBomb.git && cd fBomb && npm install
For this applicaiton you need to get the API keys for Twitter https://dev.twitter.com and Google Maps. These are then inserted into config.json . You can also specify the name you want your applciation to have in this file.
Below is the current config.json file. replace the values surrounded by brackets ('[') with your API keys and configurations.
{
"consumer_key":"[CONSUMER_KEY]",
"consumer_secret":"[CONSUMER_SECRET]",
"oauth_token":"[OATH_TOKEN]",
"oauth_token_secret":"[OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET]",
"gmaps":"[GMAPS_API_KEY]",
"app_name":"[APP_NAME]",
"track": "[WORDS_TO_TRACK]"
}You can then run the application with the following:
$ coffee coffeeApp.coffee
If you have configured it correctly you should be able to browse to localhost:3000 and you see some bombs drop!
To change what is being tracked by the application, replace "[WORDS_TO_TRACK]" in config.json with a comma seperated list of words to track. (e.g. "fuck,fucks,fucking").
Markers are customizable by replacing 'fbomb.gif' and 'signPost.png' located in './public/img/'
'fbomb.gif' is the initail indicator.
'signpost.png' is the marker that drops after the gif animation and stays on the map.
If you want to deploy this app, I suggest Heroku, they have lots of docs to help you out:
node.js: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs
websockets: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-websockets
Let me know if you have any questions!
Martin
martin@mgingras.com