fBomb

See where in the world the fBomb was dropped

Installation

Fairly basic to set up your own instance of this application.

To set up your own version of this app, all you have to do is clone this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/mgingras/fBomb.git && cd fBomb && npm install

Configuration

For this applicaiton you need to get the API keys for Twitter https://dev.twitter.com and Google Maps. These are then inserted into config.json . You can also specify the name you want your applciation to have in this file.

Below is the current config.json file. replace the values surrounded by brackets ('[') with your API keys and configurations.

{
  "consumer_key":"[CONSUMER_KEY]",
  "consumer_secret":"[CONSUMER_SECRET]",
  "oauth_token":"[OATH_TOKEN]",
  "oauth_token_secret":"[OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET]",
  "gmaps":"[GMAPS_API_KEY]",
  "app_name":"[APP_NAME]",
  "track": "[WORDS_TO_TRACK]"
}

You can then run the application with the following:

$ coffee coffeeApp.coffee

If you have configured it correctly you should be able to browse to localhost:3000 and you see some bombs drop!

Customization

Tracking

To change what is being tracked by the application, replace "[WORDS_TO_TRACK]" in config.json with a comma seperated list of words to track. (e.g. "fuck,fucks,fucking").

Images

Markers are customizable by replacing 'fbomb.gif' and 'signPost.png' located in './public/img/'

'fbomb.gif' is the initail indicator.
'signpost.png' is the marker that drops after the gif animation and stays on the map.

Deployment

If you want to deploy this app, I suggest Heroku, they have lots of docs to help you out: node.js: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs
websockets: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-websockets

Contact

Let me know if you have any questions!

Martin
[email protected]