Tweeter Project

Tweeter is a simple, single-page Twitter clone.

This repository is the starter code for the project: Students will fork and clone this repository, then build upon it to practice their HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery and AJAX front-end skills, and their Node, Express and MongoDB back-end skills.

Final Product

Purpose

BEWARE: This project was published for learning purposes. It is not intended for use in production-grade software.

This project was created and published by me as part of my learnings at Lighthouse Labs.

Key Features

• User name and avator are central on the main page
• Users can view a list of tweets in tbe main browser window
• By clicking the double down arrow buttons in the Nav or Header, an area for new tweets to be composed slides into view
  • While entering a tweet into the text area, the number of remaining characters is continually updated
  • Once the user enters more than the allowed 140 characters, the counter turns red
  • If tries to submit an invalid tweet (no entery, or more than 140 characters, a warning is shown and the submission is ignored)
• When a user hovers over existing tweets, the tweet itself is highlighted and the tweet's composer handle is shown
• The page follows responsive design principles, and adjust when the screen size shrinks, with breakpoints for phones and tablets
  • In phone view, the "Write New Tweet" text disappers leaving just the double down arrow button
• A second button appears whenever the user scrolls the window, this will take them back to the top of the page and put a cursor into the new tweet box. The button then slides out of view

Potential Future Additions

Over time, the following additinal features would improve the Tweeter app:

• Allow a user to Register and Sign-in, and update a custom avatar
• Store tweets in a functional database so they can be stored over time
• Add functionality to the Like, Retweet, and Flag buttons on each tweet

Getting Started

1. Fork this repository, then clone your fork of this repository.
2. Install dependencies using the npm install command.
3. Start the web server using the npm run local command. The app will be served at http://localhost:8080/.
4. Go to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.

Dependencies

• Express
• BodyParser
• Chance
• md5
• Node 5.10.x or above