waytoofast

The purpose of the application is to point out the information overload we experience every day.

Check out the app at: waytoofast.oemel09.de

This application shows random real-time tweets from twitter.com and random videos and pictures from pexels.com.
If sound is enabled the app plays random sounds from freesound.org.

Screenshot

API keys

To deploy the application by yourself you need to provide a bearer-token of your twitter developer account and an API-key for pexels as well as for freesound. Create a config.json file like the example-config.json found in this repository.

Configuration

Configuration is done via the following environment variables:

Key	Default	Description
PORT	61113	The port where the app will run
PATH_PREFIX	-	Subdirectory where the app will be deployed
TEMPLATES_DIR	-	Path to the templates directory
STATIC_ASSETS_DIR	-	Path to the static assets (css, js)
CONFIG_FILE	-	Path to the json config file

Build

To build the app run go install

Run

TEMPLATES_DIR=/path/to/templates \
STATIC_ASSETS_DIR=/path/to/assets \
CONFIG_FILE/path/to/config.json \
waytoofast

Deploying to a subdirectory

If the app will be available at a subdirectory, set the PATH_PREFIX environment variable and set the PATH_PREFIX constant in the index.js file.

Third party libraries

• rangetouch to make the sliders work on touch devices