CAYdenberg / pouch-editor-demo

Pouch Editor Demo

For Exchange.JS, Nov 7. 2019

Prerequisites

• Node 8
• NPM 5
• CouchDB 16
• Add CORS to CouchDB

Setup

• git clone https://github.com/CAYdenberg/pouch-editor-demo.git
• cd pouch-editor-demo
• npm i
• cp .env.example .env

Create a Database on mLab (this is for session storage)

• Go to mLab.com and sign in or create an account
• Click Create new to create a new database
• Pick any free combination of options
• Once the database is created, create a new user under the users tab
• Click Add database user. Choose a username and password and note them down.
• Copy the MongoDB URI from the top of the page (mongodb://) into the .env file under MONGO_URI. Then replace <dbuser> with your username and <dbpassword> with your password.

How to get a Twitter API key

• Sign in at https://apps.twitter.com
• Click Create a new application
• Enter your application name, website and description
• For Callback URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/twitter/callback
• Go to Settings tab
• Check the box Allow this application to be used to Sign in with Twitter
• Click Update this Twitter's applications settings
• Copy and paste Consumer Key and Consumer Secret keys into .env file as TWITTER_KEY and TWITTER_SECRET

Run it!

• npm start

Any questions?

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