emuvente / textshots

Hacking The Tweetstorm with Pictures of Text

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Hacking The Tweetstorm... With Pictures of Text

Built With

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Twitter
• Jade
• Jquery

Running

Development

Make config/constants.js (see config/constants.production.js for format.)

to make the constants.js file for local development, see this example. Note this is for LOCAL DEVELOPMENT ONLY.

var Constants = {
  Cookie_Secret: "ANY RANDOM STRING",
  // Key and secret used to connect to twitter app, can't be shared
  Twitter: {
    KEY: "A VALID TWITTER API KEY",
    SECRET: "A VALID TWITTER SECRET",
    CALLBACK: "ANY STRING WILL SUFFICE, I USED '/auth/twitter/callback'",
  },
  Imgur: {
    ID: "A VALID IMGUR ID",
    SECRET: "A VALID IMGUR SECRET"
  },
  MongoURL: "mongodb://localhost/local",
  RedisURL: "redis://localhost:6379"
};

Things you need to do:

• Go to apps.twitter.com and create a test app. Use the KEY and SECRET they give you in your constants file.
• Similarly create a legitimate IMGUR app and use the keys they give you.
• Run MONGO locally. The URL I used should also work for you.
• Run REDIS locally. My URL should work for you also; the port might differ however.
• Install Grunt npm install -g grunt-cli
• Run grunt --force watch (this will automatically rebuild your application.min.js when you make changes to script.js.)

Then run

$ node bin/www

Run using Docker

If using OSX or Windows

• Install Boot2Docker
• Run Boot2Docker
  • $ boot2docker init
  • $ boot2docker start
  • $ $(boot2docker shellinit)
  • To persist the environment variables across shell sessions, you can add $(boot2docker shellinit) to your ~/.bashrc file

If using Linux (Ubuntu)

• Install from your favorite package manager
  • $ sudo apt-get install docker.io

Installing Fig

• Install Fig
  • $ curl -L https://github.com/docker/fig/releases/download/1.0.1/fig-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/fig; chmod +x /usr/local/bin/fig
• Get the Twitter and Imgur API key and secret and set them in constants.js
• Set MongoURL as "mongodb://" + process.env.MONGODB_PORT_27017_TCP_ADDR + "/local",
• Set RedisURL as "redis://" + process.env.REDIS_PORT_6379_TCP_ADDR + ":6379"
• Build the Docker containers
  • $ fig build
• Run the app
  • $ fig up web
• Access the app locally
  • OSX/Windows: Run boot2docker ip to get the ip address of the Docker daemon
  • View the app at IP_ADDRESS:3000. If using Linux, go to localhost:3000

Production

• Set the appropriate environment variables (see config/constants.production.js).
• Set NODE_ENV to production.
• Push/Deploy.

About

This is a product being built by the Assembly community. You can help push this idea forward by visiting https://assembly.com/textshots.