Oinkster

This is a web app meant to offer the same basic functionality that Twitter does.


App features

Currently the app's features include:

• A front end built with React.js/Redux
• A Node.js/Express RESTful API
• A PostgreSQL database
• Authentication with JSON web tokens
• Tests written with mocha, chai, enzyme, and supertest
• User image uploading to AWS S3 with the AWS API

To be implemented:

• "hashtag" and "following" features
• Analyze some of the data with natural language processing APIs
• Graph app data with D3.js or chart.js
• Integrate social authentication with Auth0

Development

• Use Node 7.2
  • nvm use if using nvm
• make sure postgres is running on port 5432 with database name oinkster-dev
• npm install
• gulp
• node webpack-dev-server.js
• app will run at localhost:8080
• need following config directory:

 config
 ├─── morgan
 │   └─── index.js
 |   └─── config.dev.js
 ├─── db-config.js

with the files:

morgan/index.js

var env = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'dev';
var config = require('./config.' + env + '.js');

module.exports = config;

morgan/config.dev.js

module.exports = {
  format: 'dev',
  options: null
};

db-config.js

module.exports = {
  connection: {
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 5432,
    user: 'you',
    database: 'oinkster-dev'
  }
}