ychang21 / al-challenge

al-challenge

This is an app that uses the Twitter NPM package to generates 3 tweets from a hashtag search.

To use this app:

1. clone the repository
2. npm install everything in the package.json
3. create an app on https://dev.twitter.com/ to retrieve the consumer key, consumer secret, access token key, and access token secret. Place these values in the controllers folder in a file called keys.js with the structure like this:
	exports.twitterKeys = {
	    consumer_key: 'Consumer Key',
	    consumer_secret: 'Consumer Secret',
	    access_token_key: 'Access Token Key',
	    access_token_secret: 'Access Token Key',
	}
4. run node server.js
5. open up localhost:3000 on your browser

Technologies

• Node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Javascript - lightweight interpreted or JIT-compiled programming language with first-class functions
• Twitter NPM - Twitter API client library for Node.js
• jQuery - fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library
• Handlebars - provides the power necessary to let you build semantic templates effectively
• MySQL - an open-source relational database management system