EMC Hackathon Tweets

This hackathon example app involves using the twitter search API to retrieve content (tweets) from Twitter. The example uses search strings of from:guychurchward , #emc, and @emc

Getting Started

1. Clone the repo onto your machine. This 'checks out' the code into your local environment.

git clone https://github.com/EMC-UI/emc-hackathon-tweets.git

2. Choose a starting point and checkout one of the read-only step branches

The project is broken into branches from 1 to 9. Branch 1 starts with a minimal skeleton project, branch 9 is the full working example.

full stackers Be brave and start with step-1. You can always look at further steps for hints.

front-endians To start with complete plumbing, and only build the UI, start with step 5

back-endians To start with a complete UI, and build only the plumbing, start with complete-ui

1. step-1 - Almost nothing. Just a few placeholder files for client and server code
2. step-2 - Minimal express server with /get and /put endpoints
3. step-3 - Adds server code to deal with twitter authentication
4. step-4 - Adds server code to deal with getting tweets
5. step-5 - Adds raw tweet data delivered to the UI
6. step-6 - Adds the simplest UI to display tweets
7. step-7 - Adds a stylesheet to the UI
8. step-8 - Display tweets in horizontal boxes, but no movement
9. step-9 - Final working example with css3 animation, sass, and grunt
10. complete-ui - In this step, the UI is complete, and you provide the backend plumbing

Once you've picked a starting point, checkout one of the named branches. For example, to checkout the step-1 branch:

git checkout step-1

3. Create a branch for your work

The example branches are shared by everyone, so they are read only. Create a branch to contain your work. Maybe name it after your team. For example:

git checkout -b fantastic-five-master

4. Hack away!

The basic workflow you should follow goes like this:

1. Write code, run code, have fun
   
2. git add {filename} to add new files
   
3. git commit -a to commit changes to your local repo
   
4. git push origin {branch name} to push changes up to github
   

Here is a git cheatsheet and a good guide for getting started with git.