Summary:

A twitter userstream app using node.js, websockets, and mongodb. And edit!

Requirements:

• Node >= 1.9.3
• kiwi (node package manage)
• twitter-userstream
• mongodb

Installation

• git clone [email protected]:rubymaverick/NodeStream.git

• cd NodeStream; git submodule update --init

• Install twitter-userstream:

  kiwi install twitter-userstream

• add nodestream.local to your hosts file (pointing to 127.0.0.1)

• Install mongodb if you don't have it already and run it on the default mongodb port

• Setup apache to serve the files

Example Apache Config

  <VirtualHost nodestream.local:80>
    ServerName nodestream.local
    DocumentRoot "/path/to/nodestream"
    <directory "/path/to/nodestream">
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    </directory>
  </VirtualHost>

• run the server: node server.js 'username:password'

• open up index.html in webkit nightly (for right now its the only browser that works with @anywhere)