Tweeter Project

Tweeter is a client-side Single Page App (SPA). It communicates with a server via AJAX. Tweets are stored in MongoDB and survive a server restart.

Also hosted here: https://frozen-journey-42511.herokuapp.com/

Final Product

Composing a tweet, showing an error if it is too long

Tweets can be liked; number of likes are stored with the tweets in the database

Dependencies

Node.js
Express
Body-parser
Chance
Dotenv
md5
MongoDB
Nodemon
NPM

Getting Started

• Clone this repository
• Install all dependencies (using the npm install commmand)
• Create a local MongoDB database called tweeter with a tweets collection
• Configure .env variable in order to specify database address to be connected. e.g: "MONGODB_URI=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017 /tweeter"
• Start the web server using "npm start". The app will be served at http://localhost:8080/.
• Go to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.