GIF Buddy getting started

GIF Buddy is a simple Node.js Burner app using Express 4 and Foundation 6

Running Locally

Install PostgreSQL

• Install PostgreSQL from here or if you want an easy Mac OS X GUI grab it here.
• Create a Database and Database user/password

Create your app

• Request OAuth credentials here.

Set up .env variables

• Copy the env file to .env
• Fill out the required variables.
  • CLIENT_ID is your OAuth client ID
  • CLIENT_SECRET is your application's OAuth secret
  • SCOPE is a comma separated list of scopes see here for more information.
  • DB_NAME is the PostgreSQL database name
  • DB_USER is your database user
  • DB_PASS is your database password
  • DB_HOST is most likely localhost
  • GIPHY_KEY is your giphy key. The public key you can use for testing can be found here.

Run the app

Make sure you have Node.js installed.

$ git clone git@github.com:adhoclabs/burner-control-panel.git # or clone your own fork
$ cd gif-buddy
$ npm install
$ npm start

Your app should now be running on localhost:5000.

Deploying to Heroku

If you'd like to deploy this app to your own Heroku instance, make sure you have the Heroku CLI installed and then run the following commands.

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku open

You'll also need to add your env file's config variables via the Heroku CLI