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molly

Molly is a project mainly written in JavaScript, based on the MIT license.

a twitter client over websockets

molly

molly is a websocket based twitter client that runs on node.js. It uses mu for mustache templating.

There's no oauth support so you run a local daemon and the html files connect to it.

Running

% export TWITTER_USER=fakeatmos
% export TWITTER_PASS=fakeatmospass
% bin/server

Features

  • Display your Home Timeline
  • Tweet messages for you

Testing

There are jspec tests but I really don't know what I'm doing.

% bin/spec

Requires

  • node.js 0.1.31

TODO

  • theme it
  • more robust tests
  • timeline should use a since_id for fetching changes
  • rewrite the timestamps on tweets with browser js for 'about 1 hour ago' style
  • handle/expand conversations
  • fetch user info
  • fetch user recent tweets
  • tweets rendered out of order on initial page load
  • OAuth Authentication