Twitter API JavaScript Node Exercise

In this course, you will build a Node.js app to connect to the Twitter API, post tweets, and search tweet objects using Express and body-parser.

Explore the course development environment with Brackets, a terminal, localhost, and Chrome developer tools to build and test Twitter API projects using node, npm, and twit.

Set up your local Node.js environment by initializing a npm package, creating index.js, installing express and nodemon, and serving a public index.html as a static page on a chosen port.

Install and configure body-parser and twit to parse json and form data, set up a tweets route that accepts a search parameter and returns a json success response.

Log into your twitter developer account, create a new app, and learn to authenticate with consumer keys and access tokens to use the twitter search api and fetch tweets.

output tweet objects as json from the Twitter API responses, build routes to get and post tweets, test with Postman, and log request bodies to send tweets live.

Set up the front-end to search tweets via the Twitter API using an input and get tweets button, fetch data with Ajax, and display results on the page.

Build a dynamic Twitter feed by extracting statuses from a fetch response, looping through tweets, and rendering clickable links with user names and tweet ids.

Learn to style the tweet output with basic CSS, hover effects, and colored spans, neatly presenting tweet data like user info and retweet or heart counts.

Post a tweet from an index page by submitting a form, preventing default, and sending a JSON payload to the backend via AJAX.

Review the source code for a node app using express, twit, and body-parser to search tweets and post updates via the Twitter API with authentication keys and tokens.