Native Talent in Tech

Native Talent in Tech is a Next.js-powered Twitter directory of accomplished Natives in the tech industry. It aims to help people find notable and relevant voices to follow on Twitter by parsing Twitter bios for popular keywords.

Here are some things Native Talent in Tech can help you with:

• If you're a Native in tech, use this project to connect with other Natives
• If you're a hiring manager, use this project to find qualified candidates
• If you're organizing a conference, use this project to find speakers
• If you have a podcast, use this project to find new guests

Prerequisites

This project requires API keys from Twitter to populate the profile data and Seeker to populate the job posts.

Seeker

Seeker is optional. To run this project without Seeker:

1. Clone the repo and open it in your code editor
2. Delete the entire api/jobs-rss.js file
3. Remove the rewrite from next.config.mjs that has /api/jobs-rss in it
4. Delete the entire pages/jobs folder
5. At some point, remove the link to the jobs page from the components/nav file

If you'd like to use Seeker, sign up for an account and create a .env file in the outermost file in this project. Add WWD_SEEKER_KEY=EXAMPLE_VALUE, replacing EXAMPLE_VALUE with the API key you get from Seeker.

Twitter

Twitter is required.

Start by creating an app on the Twitter developer dashboard. Select the "Read only" access option.

If you haven't already, clone the repo and open it in your code editor.

Create a .env file in the project's outermost folder and place the following in it:

WWD_TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=EXAMPLE_VALUE
WWD_TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=EXAMPLE_VALUE
WWD_TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN=EXAMPLE_VALUE

Replace the WWD_TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY and WWD_TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET values with the consumer key and secret from the "Keys and tokens" page of your app's developer dashboard. You don't need to put quotes around the value.

Generate a bearer token (WWD_TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN) by running this command in your terminal, replacing the variables with your consumer key and secret information.

curl -u "$CONSUMER_KEY:$CONSUMER_SECRET" \
    --data 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
    'https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token'

Copy the bearer token and place the value in the .env file.

Generating directory profiles

The directory's profiles are generated from the list of users that the Native Talent in Tech Twitter account follows.

To provide your own user list, replace the value of the variable TWITTER_ACCOUNT_ID in the pages/index.jsx file with the Twitter ID of your chosen Twitter account. To get the Twitter ID of your account, provide your handle to a service like Tweeter ID.

Make sure that the account provided is following at least one account and that Twitter ID in pages/index.jsx is in quotes.

Install dependencies

If you're new to development, start by installing Homebrew, a macOS package manager. Paste the following command in your terminal.

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

When Homebrew installed, use it to install Yarn, a JS dependency manager.

brew install yarn

After Yarn is installed, use it to install the dependencies.

yarn

Run the project locally

Making sure you're in the correct project folder, start the local development server.

yarn start

In your browser, open localhost:8000.