A simple Twitter-based API for PWA Workshop

Prerequisites

Latest stable versions of node, npm installed. Having yarn installed is strongly recommended.

Install

1. Clone the repo

yarn

or

npm install

Creating settings file

1. Save .env.template as .env and open it in the editor

Getting Twitter credentials

1. Go to https://apps.twitter.com/app/new and create a new app. Website field - any valid URL
2. Go to "Keys and Access Tokens" tab and click "Create my access token" button
3. Use Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token, Access Token Secret to fill in the corresponding fields in .env

Getting VAPID credentials

Go to https://web-push-codelab.glitch.me/ and use the newly generated Public and Private VAPID keys to fill in the corresponding fields in .env

Starting the app

1. In the terminal

node .

You should see the output:

{
  "level": "info",
  "message": "Listening on port 3000"
}

2. Open http://localhost:3000/. You should see PWA Workshop API works!.
3. Open http://localhost:3000/timeline/. You should see the JSON with your latest tweets.
4. Open http://localhost:3000/timeline/angular/. You should see the JSON with @angular latest tweets. Instead of angular you can use any other Twitter handle.
5. Check the console: you will see the entries

{
  "level": "info",
  "message": "Tweet stream received"
}

appear there periodically.

Customizing the app

By default it streams the new tweets with javascript string. You can change this setting:

node . --stringToMonitor angular

Important

Please allow 10-15 seconds after application stop before the new start. Otherwise your connection will be rejected by Twitter's rate limit control (Status Code: 420). Just wait 30 seconds before the new start in this case.

Fallback solution for Push messaging

If Twitter Stream API doesn't work, set the last parameter of new CronJob to true to start pushing messages by timer.