Twitter clone, made in order to try out some of the feature testing tools such as Casper and Selenium. Also to test socket.io and other misc stuff.

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• Casper
• Selenium WebDriver
• Bcrypt
• Mocha
• Socket.io
• jQuery

Refresher project - Casper didn't turn out to be good with SPAs. Prefer Selenium. Ignore the lack of structure/modularisation of app.

• Add equivalent functionality that I have in the original version (followers, private messages etc.)
• More use of Jquery animations for cool effects
• Improve the CSS and HTML (Current design is rather simple - using bootstrap).
• Add hashtags and other Twitter related content
• Find better testing tools for feature testing AJAX and JQuery.

The live version of the site will be available shortly.

Clone the repository:

$ git clone [email protected]:snozza/sockerr.git

Change into the directory and npm install the modules:

$ cd sockerr
$ npm install

Setup:

Ensure that mocha is installed globally:

$ npm install mocha -g

Download the chromedriver executable from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html and place it on your path (e.g. /usr/local/bin).
Futher information can be found at https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver

Download the Selenium stand-alone server from http://www.seleniumhq.org/download
then in a separate terminal run:

$ java -jar /pathtofile/selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar

Ensure that MongoDB is installed and run a mongodb server daemon in a seperate terminal

$ mongod

Run the tests:

Please use the following test runner (includes setup and teardown of server and database)

$ node mocha_runner.js

Start the node server and visit http://localhost:3000/

$ node app.js