msoftware/dwitter

Social network for short js demos

dwitter

A platform to write visual art in javascript limited to 140 characters.

Available on dwitter.net

Inspired by arkt.is/t/

Pre-requisites and first-time installation

• Install npm
• sudo apt install git virtualenv python-pip
• git clone https://github.com/lionleaf/dwitter.git

Setup

• make setup (set up virtual environment)
• source venv/bin/activate (activate virtual environment)
• make (install dependencies and set up database)
• python manage.py createsuperuser (create admin account used below)
• make run runs the server. Use make serve instead if you're working inside a VM with port forwarding. (0.0.0.0:8000)
• go to http://localhost:8000/admin/sites/, login with admin account created above, click on the one entry, and change both domain name and display name to localhost:8000.
• Make sure http://dweet.localhost:8000/ returns a django error. May not work in Firefox.

Other commands

• make migrations
• make migrate
• make lint
  • lints Python and JS files
  • automatically fixes some JS issues (mostly whitespace-related)
• make shell
• make backup
• make restore-backup