Sockerr - A Twitter clone (version 2);

Introduction

Twitter clone, made in order to try out some of the feature testing tools such as Casper and Selenium. Also to test socket.io and other misc stuff.

Languages/Platforms/Tools

Node.js
Express
MongoDB
Mongoose
Casper
Selenium WebDriver
Bcrypt
Mocha
Socket.io
jQuery

Learning Outcomes

Refresher project - Casper didn't turn out to be good with SPAs. Prefer Selenium. Ignore the lack of structure/modularisation of app.

To-do List

Add equivalent functionality that I have in the original version (followers, private messages etc.)
More use of Jquery animations for cool effects
Improve the CSS and HTML (Current design is rather simple - using bootstrap).
Add hashtags and other Twitter related content
Find better testing tools for feature testing AJAX and JQuery.

Instructions

The live version of the site will be available shortly.

Clone the repository:

$ git clone git@github.com:snozza/sockerr.git

Change into the directory and npm install the modules:

$ cd sockerr
$ npm install

Setup:

Ensure that mocha is installed globally:

$ npm install mocha -g

Download the chromedriver executable from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html and place it on your path (e.g. /usr/local/bin).
Futher information can be found at https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver

Download the Selenium stand-alone server from http://www.seleniumhq.org/download
then in a separate terminal run:

$ java -jar /pathtofile/selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar

Ensure that MongoDB is installed and run a mongodb server daemon in a seperate terminal

$ mongod

Run the tests:

Please use the following test runner (includes setup and teardown of server and database)

$ node mocha_runner.js

Start the node server and visit http://localhost:3000/

$ node app.js

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