storm-twitter-interface

Redis setup

To be able to run this project you will need to have redis running in the background with some sample data. First make sure that the dump.rdb file is in the current directory and then run:

redis-server

To check if everything is working you need to open the command line interface in a new terminal:

redis-cli
keys *

This should return a list of keys in database. This needs to contain a key named 'tweetList'. If you want to stop running the redis server you can shut it down gracefully using the redis-cli's shutdown command.

Installation

Run git clone to get a local version of this repository, then run npm install to install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/tjallingt/storm-twitter-interface.git
cd storm-twitter-interface
npm install

To build and run the project you first need to create the folder for the static files (one time only) and then run the build script: (direction of slash differs for operating systems; / for linux/mac, \ for windows)

mkdir static/js/
npm run build

Finally to run the node server and view the project in the browser:

npm start

Development

When working on the project use the watch script to automatically generate new builds when changes are made and run the linter regularly to check for style errors. When presented with linter errors googling them will usually result in an in-depth description of the problem and solution(s).

npm run watch
npm run lint

IDE Linter integration

I use Sublime Text 3 in combination with Sublime Linter to highlight my style errors immediately. To make Sublime Linter work with eslint you need the SublimeLinter-eslint plugin. Installing all these packages very easy using Package Control

Git and Github

When you make changes that you want to lock down you need to commit the changes to git, usually you want to pull first (to see if someone elses changes interfere with yours). (note leaving out the m(essage) option from the commit command will open a text editor which can allow for easier writing)

git pull
git status
git add [filenames | --all]
git commit -m "commit message"
git push [origin master]

Twitter API sample response

https://gist.github.com/hrp/900964