Tweeter is a simple, single-page Twitter clone that runs on a local server. This is a student project to practice full-stack development.
From the command line...
- Clone the repo into a tweeter directory.
git clone git@github.com:shmootidy/tweeter.git tweeter - Install dependencies.
npm install - Start the web server.
npm run local - Open Tweeter and go!
http://localhost:8080/
- Time stamp is sensible and human-friendly.
- Tweets are displayed in reverse chronological order (newest first).
- Toggle the compose tweet input fields with a nifty button.
- All tweets save to external database and will survive server restart.
- Handy character counter turns red to tell you when your entry is too long.
- Hover to highlight individual tweets.
- Node 5.10.x or above
- Express
- Body Parser
- Chance
- md5
- MongoDB
- Nodemon
The lovely developers at Lighthouse Labs built the bones of this project and helped guide me (and all the other students in my cohort) toward its successful compl 4C6F etion.