Mini-Twitter

This repository contains a set of projects covered for CPSC-449 Web-Backend development under the guidance of Prof. Kenytt Avery at CSU, Fullerton.

Team members

• Aditya Dingare
• Aritra Sengupta

Built with

• Python - API implementation
• Flask - Web framework written in Python
• SQLite3 - Database to store data
• httpie - API testing client
• Foreman - Used Procfile to manage web-application
• Tuffix or Mac OS - Operating System
• Atom - IDE

Getting started

Installations / Prerequisites

• Install Python3 and SQLite3 on your Mac/Linux
• Install Flask

    pip3 install Flask

• httpie on Mac

  brew install httpie 

• Ruby Gem is required to install foreman. Use following command to install foreman:

  gem install foreman

• Use queries in database/ to up the db
• Double click on the procfile to start the two services userService and timelineService

About project

Project - 2

• Created a RESTful API userService to register user,bauthenticate, start following the other user,and stop following the other user
• timelineService a RESTful API to post a message, view recent 25 posts, view posts from the other user's to whom user is following, and public posts