Twitter Interface

A Node.js application that uses Express and Pug along with Twitter's REST API to access data for a Twitter account and renders it to the local host.

Motivation

This project was created as a part of the Treehouse Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree program.

Features

• Accesses information on a Twitter account using Twitter's REST API
• Automatically authenticates access to a Twitter profile
• Displays recent tweets, recent friends, and recent direct messages
• Allows user to send tweets
• Displays user friendly error page if a page doesn't exist
• Running npm install installs relevant dependencies

To Run

• Download project files by running git clone https://github.com/LeeVaughn/twitter-interface
• Navigate to the project folder
• Install dependencies with npm install
• You will need to create your own config.js file using this format:

const T = {
  consumer_key: "...",
  consumer_secret: "...",
  access_token: "...",
  access_token_secret: "...",
  timeout_ms: 60 * 1000, // optional HTTP request timeout to apply to all requests.
  strictSSL: true, // optional - requires SSL certificates to be valid.
};

module.exports = T;

• The config.js file should be saved in the same directory as app.js
• Type npm start or node app.js to run application (application runs on localhost:3000)

Dependencies

• express Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node
• pug A clean, whitespace-sensitive template language for writing HTML
• Twit Twitter API Client for node
• body-parser Node.js body parsing middleware
• date-fns Modern JavaScript date utility library

Built With

• Node.js
• Express
• Pug

API

• Twitter REST API

Future Improvements

• Deploy on Heroku
• Consider integrating the Twitter's Streaming API

Links

• Project Homepage - coming soon!
• Repository

Author

Daniel Lee Vaughn