dwitter

A platform to write visual art in javascript limited to 140 characters.

Available on dwitter.net

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Inspired by arkt.is/t/

Pre-requisites and first-time installation

Install npm
sudo apt install npm
Get packages needed for server and clone the repository
sudo apt install git virtualenv python-pip
git clone https://github.com/lionleaf/dwitter.git

Setup

make setup (set up virtual environment)
source venv/bin/activate (activate virtual environment)
make (install dependencies and set up database)
python manage.py createsuperuser (create admin account used below)
make run runs the server. Use make serve instead if you're working inside a VM with port forwarding. (0.0.0.0:8000)
go to http://localhost:8000/admin/sites/, login with admin account created above, click on the one entry, and change both domain name and display name to localhost:8000.
Make sure http://dweet.localhost:8000/ returns a django error. May not work in Firefox.

Other commands

make migrations
make migrate
make lint
- lints Python and JS files
- automatically fixes some JS issues (mostly whitespace-related)
make shell
make backup
make restore-backup

Dwitter API

Dweets

GET www.dwitter.net/api/dweets/  - list of the last 10 dweets
       
       ?limit=100            - number of results to return, default 10, max 100 (subject to change)
       &offset=200           - offset page by 200 dweets
       &remix_of=123         - all remixes of 123
       &author=lionleaf      - dweets by author


GET www.dwitter.net/api/dweets/123  - get details about d/123

Latest dweet: https://www.dwitter.net/api/dweets/?limit=1 (sorted by posted date by default)

Users

GET dwitter.net/api/users/lionleaf  - Show details about user 'lionleaf'.