Shared Windows
Share a browsing experience.
What is it?
- A list making tool,
- That can show you websites in the list,
- And synchronize that preview with all your friends!
What can you do with it?
- Share the web browser with your friends
- Present a slideshow over the internet
- Control what is displayed on many computers from a single computer
- Post lists to lists for a "file directory"-esq experience
How to use it:
Go to : Shared Windows Tutorial
How to access it (pre-alpha):
Got to : Shared Windows
Careful! It's fragile!
How to host your own:
Install prerequisites:
- Visual Studio or XCode (sign Xcode's license agreement!!!)
- nodejs
- npm install sqlite3
- npm install socket.io
- npm install jsdom
- npm install multiparty
- npm install http-get
- Open "sharedwindows/server/" in your command prompt.
- run "node server.js"
- The default port is 80 (http). To change that, use: "node server.js [http port]".
for example:
node server.js 8080
Issues:
Database problems? Create a fresh database!
- Go into
database/and deletedb.sqlite. - Copy
dbClean.sqlite - name it
db.sqlite.
JSDOM issues?
- JSDOM relies on contextify, which relies on node-gyp.
- Node-gyp needs Visual Studio or XCode installed.
- Hint for Windows: node-gyp
- Hints for XCode: Xcode->Preferences->Downloads and install component named "Command Line Tools". XCode may ask you to sign a liscense via the command line.
Extending the code:
- This projects consists of a client and a server.
- Run the server as described above.
- It'll serve you a copy of the client on port 80.
The server code is in the folder labeled "server". The client is in "webClient". The server pulls from the "database/db.sqlite" often.
There are read-mes in the client and server folders.
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