Tweeter Project

Tweeter is a simple, single-page Twitter clone. This project uses HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX on the front end and Node, Express and MongoDB on the back end.

Final Product

The final product is a single-page application that allows users to view a stream of tweets that are saved in the database and post new tweets using the "Compose" button.

Dependencies

Tweeter requires the following dependencies:

• Express
• body-parser
• MongoDB
• chance

NOTE: Tweeter utilizes a MongoDB database called "tweeter," and tweets are saved within a collection named "tweets."

Getting Started

In order to use Tweeter, please follow these steps:

• Install all dependencies (using the 'npm install' command in the command-line interface).
• Start the Mongo command line interface (type mongo in the command line)
• create a new database called 'tweeter' by typing use tweeter.
• To test the application's ability to read tweets from the database, seed some tweets in the "tweets" collection (sample tweets and instructions are below).
• Once the tweets have been seeded, exit the Mongo command line interface (Ctrl + C on a Mac) and go into the tweeter folder on the command line.
• Run the development web server using the npm run local command.
• Visit http://localhost:8080 in your browser and start tweeting!

Sample Tweets and MongoDB Instructions

If you would like to test Tweeter using some sample tweets in your database, please follow these instructions:

• Type mongo in the command line.
• Create a new database called tweeter by typing use tweeter.
• create a new variable called tweets with some sample tweets (copy and paste the code below).
• Type 'db.tweets.insertMany(tweets)'.

Once you have completed these steps, continue with the instructions above. Here are some sample tweets to get you started:

var tweets = [
  {
    "user": {
      "name": "Newton",
      "avatars": {
        "small":   "https://vanillicon.com/788e533873e80d2002fa14e1412b4188_50.png",
        "regular": "https://vanillicon.com/788e533873e80d2002fa14e1412b4188.png",
        "large":   "https://vanillicon.com/788e533873e80d2002fa14e1412b4188_200.png"
      },
      "handle": "@SirIsaac"
    },
    "content": {
      "text": "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
    },
    "created_at": 1461116232227
  },
  {
    "user": {
      "name": "Descartes",
      "avatars": {
        "small":   "https://vanillicon.com/7b89b0d8280b93e2ba68841436c0bebc_50.png",
        "regular": "https://vanillicon.com/7b89b0d8280b93e2ba68841436c0bebc.png",
        "large":   "https://vanillicon.com/7b89b0d8280b93e2ba68841436c0bebc_200.png"
      },
      "handle": "@rd" },
    "content": {
      "text": "Je pense , donc je suis"
    },
    "created_at": 1461113959088
  },
  {
    "user": {
      "name": "Johann von Goethe",
      "avatars": {
        "small":   "https://vanillicon.com/d55cf8e18b47d4baaf60c006a0de39e1_50.png",
        "regular": "https://vanillicon.com/d55cf8e18b47d4baaf60c006a0de39e1.png",
        "large":   "https://vanillicon.com/d55cf8e18b47d4baaf60c006a0de39e1_200.png"
      },
      "handle": "@johann49"
    },
    "content": {
      "text": "Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit."
    },
    "created_at": 1461113796368
  }
]