Twitter-Interface

TreeHouse Full Stack Javascript Techdegree Project Unit 7

Live version url: https://agile-thicket-44316.herokuapp.com/

Screenshot:

Figure 1: Homepage

Instructions to run locally:

1. Go to https://developer.twitter.com/, sign in or sign up, then create a new project and get your credentials by clicking the Keys and Tokens tab of your app dashboard. You will also need to make a Google project with OAuth2 credentials, more info on that here
2. Clone master branch git repo
3. Follow instructions for enabling HTTPS on localhost by following this guide
4. run mkdir certs in the project root directory, add server.key and server.crt from step 3 to certs folder.
5. create a .env file in the project root directory and add the following variables:

• CONSUMERKEY: this should contain the API key value obtained from step 1
• CONSUMERSECRET: this should contain the API secret key value obtained from step 1
• ACCESSTOKEN: this should contain the Access token value obtained from step 1
• ACCESSTOKENSECRET: this should contain the Access token secret value obtained from step 1
• SESSIONSECRET: this should contain any string of your choosing, it's for express sessions.
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID: this should contain your Google client id, found in your Google Cloud Console, Credentials section.
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET: this should contain your Google client secret.
• GOOGLE_REDIRECT_URI: this should contain your Google redirect URI.

4. navigate to the root directory and run npm install
5. run npm start in root directory to start backend
6. navigate to client folder and run npm run start:dev to start front-end client
7. Then run npm install in the console
8. Finally npm start to start the server

Then run npm install in the console

Finally npm start to start the server

Google Scopes for the project: https://mail.google.com/ https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.compose