Image sharing chatroom ( written by Jay Zeng, @nieksand Niek Sanders )

Just type a keyword in to the search box. We pull the first google image search result and show it to everyone connected to the webpage.

• socket.io and node.js for broadcasting the images
• jQuery for DOM manipulation
• jsonp for cross-site request to Google API
• bootstrap for UI

How to run:

• git clone git@github.com:jayzeng/imagefetcher.git
• npm install
• node server.js
• open http://localhost:8080
• or foreman start

TODO:

• Add unit test
• User Auth and session management

Demo app: http://fetchmyimage.herokuapp.com/

Steps to deploy on Heroku:

• heroku apps:create fetchmyimage
• npm install
• git push heroku master
• heroku ps:scale web=1

Heroku references:

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs#declare-dependencies-with-npm