Social tools for grassroots movements.
Assuming you've installed Node 4.x.x and npm 2.15.x
###Bower###
npm install -g bower && npm install bower
###Gulp###
npm install -g gulp && npm install gulp
###Nodemon###
npm install -g nodemon
Violet currently depends on Node Canvas. It may be that we break this functionality into a separate process in the near future but for now it means you need to carry out the following steps on an ubuntu-based distro:
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libjpeg8-dev libpango1.0-dev libgif-dev build-essential g++
If you're running a different distro or Windows then visit the github site where there are more instructions.
Then you'll need to grab the latest modules:
npm install && bower install
note: currently NPM is throwing some peer dependency errors, these need fixing but don't prevent the packages from installing correctly. See the issue
###Webserver### Violet is designed to run behind a webserver and we include some nginx config files that setup the reverse proxy. This makes it a bit easier to do the OAuth flow.
You need to setup the following environment variables: VIOLET_SERVER_ID, VIOLET_TW_CONSUMER_KEY, VIOLET_TW_CONSUMER_SECRET, VIOLET_TW_ACCESS_TOKEN, VIOLET_TW_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET, VIOLET_BLOCKLIST_URL:
Add export VIOLET_XXX = yyy to your .profile or .bashrc
VIOLET_SERVER_ID: This is used to specify different settings for different server environments and should map to a section in the config.json file.
VIOLET_TW_CONSUMER_KEY, VIOLET_TW_CONSUMER_SECRET: Twitter API Keys : Twitter App
VIOLET_TW_ACCESS_TOKEN, VIOLET_TW_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET: Twitter Static OAuth credentials that can be used to authenticated server-specific twitter API calls. Currently used to pre-load the block list account details.
VIOLET_BLOCKLIST_URL: URL of an API returning a json array of strings representing twitter usernames that are to be blocked ie `["xxx", "yyy", "zzz"]
Then add to config.coffee.
npm run build
npm start; or
npm run dev