daskott / feanplay

A simple twitter like application, using Firebase Authentication, Real-time Database and storage

feanPlay

feanPlay is a simple twitter-like application that uses Firebase, Express, Angular and Node.

Prerequisite Technologies

Linux

• Node.js - Download and Install Node.js, nodeschool has free node tutorials to get you started. Recommend node version is node-4.x to run feanPlay.

If you're using ubuntu, this is the preferred repository to use...

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

• Git - Get git using a package manager or download it.

Windows

• Node.js - Download and Install Node.js, nodeschool has free node tutorials to get you started.
• Git - The easiest way to install git and then run the rest of the commands through the git bash application (via command prompt) is by downloading and installing Git for Windows

OSX

• Node.js - Download and Install Node.js or use the packages within brew or macports.
• git - Get git from here.

Prerequisite packages

• feanPlay currently uses gulp as a build tool.

$ npm install -g gulp

Create ng/firebase.js and add your firebase credentials:

var config = {
      apiKey: "apiKey",
      authDomain: "projectId.firebaseapp.com",
      databaseURL: "https://databaseName.firebaseio.com",
      storageBucket: "bucket.appspot.com",
    };
    firebase.initializeApp(config);

• In the ./feanPlay dir from terminal run:

$ npm install

Start web server

• To start your web server, from terminal run:

$ gulp

• Access the web app on your localhost:

http://localhost:8080/