SimpleTwitter

A simple twitter clone for testing new technologies like AngularJS, NodeJS and MongoDB.

Installation

The following guid shows which software you need to run the project and what you have to do after installing the software.

For the client

There is nothing to do. Just point your webserver to the client directory and open the location in your browser.

For the server

Software you need

• NodeJS
• NPM
• MongoDB

Installing the dependencies

Just run within the server directory the command npm install.

Running

To run the server just go to the server directory and run bin/server to start the server. If you like to start the sever in development mode just run NODE_ENV=development bin/server.

You can also run this command from the project root directory: npm start.

Deployment

To deploy the project to appfog just follow the install instructions here. The project automaticly listen to the enviroment vars set by appfog.

Testing

A test instance of this project is deployed on this URL: simpletwitter.aws.af.cm (Hosted on a free plan at appfog)