Canary is a code bragging community, built by four students at Founders & Coders London. Users are invited to brag to Canary about their coding triumphs and receive virtual applause for their breakthrough.
We're building Canary as a learning exercise in using Node.js for large-scale projects, as well as to provide a lifeline for needy coders in search of validation.
We followed these steps to build Canary:
- Make Create, Read and Delete (CR-D) endpoints
- Store tweets as JSON in memory (now obsolete, as we're using Redis)
- Store Tweets in the file system
- Use Cookies to restrict tweet deletion to the browser from which the tweet was originally created
- Move Tweets to Redis
- Deploy to Heroku
- Add real-time updates of tweets with Socket.io
- Hash tag functionality (for different programming languages)
- Attach geolocation data to every clap
- Allow users to select their own location from a map
- Display all claps on a map
- Username functionality
- "Impressed" button
##How can you run Canary?
You will need to have node.js, nodemon and redis installed, plus a basic understanding of git and your terminal to get this working.
git clone https://github.com/jmnr/canary.gitnpm install3. Run the Server with Nodemon:
npm run nodemon