An application generating a tagcloud based upon hashtag search in Twitter.
- express (web server)
- express-session (store sessions sever-sided)
- body-parser (parsing incoming requests)
- dotenv (for handling credientials)
- node-fetch (instead of http/https to support promises)
- node-sass (compiling sass styles to css)
- oauth (used to authenticate with Twitter API)
- pug (template engine for views)
- wordcloud (rendering the actual tagcloud)
When using the Twitter API you need to have credentials put in a .env file
that should lie in the root of the project. Please update it with accordingly
values.
Make sure you have Node.js installed (preferably latest LTS, 8.9.4). Application requires at least v8.5.8 due to use of promises... and trailing commas. Oops. :-)
$ git clone git@github.com:markusbergh/taggis.git
$ cd taggis
$ npm install
$ npm start
Now you can see the running application in a browser at http://localhost:3000/
When running in development mode you will have node-sass listening
for changes in styles, and nodemon restarting server upon changes
to the server code base.
$ npm run dev