Input a twitter handle and click on submit to see the 10 latest tweets made by the user
You will need a Developer account on twitter to run this app You can follow the steps from https://dev.to/sumedhpatkar/beginners-guide-how-to-apply-for-a-twitter-developer-account-1kh7
Once your account is approved and you have created a project you should be able to generate the "API Key & Secret" and "Access Token & Secret"
Then in the main directory, same as where this readme is saved, create a new file named ".env" and input the content as below
CONSUMER_API_KEY=< api key here >
CONSUMER_API_SECRET=< api secret here >
ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=< access token here >
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=< access token secret here >
Once you have done this you can continue on with the next part
Run this command to install all the dependancies for this app, once this is done continue to the next part
Starts the app and server Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The App.js is where you will be able to input a Twitter User ID and when you click on submit it will retrieve the 10 latest tweets of that user
The server.js handles the communication with the Twitter API to search and retrieve tweets by the Twitter User ID provided from the front end client
Run the unit tests to check if all components are working as expected To Do
- unit test for server and client communication