metasean-at-devmountain / twitter-clone

This is the start environment for the Twitter clone project

Use this repo as the starting point for the Twitter clone project:

PART ONE

• Fork the repo
• Get familiar with the html/css
• Right before your closing body tag, link to your jQuery found in the js folder.
• Create a animations.js file and then link to it right before your the closing body tag
• Use jQuery to add the following features:
  • Initially, the Tweet button and the character count button should be hidden (CSS).
  • When the user clicks on the textarea, the textarea should double in size and the character count and Tweet buttons should be revealed.
  • As the user types, the character count should decrease.
  • When there are 10 or less characters, the character counter should turn red.
  • If the user puts in more than 140 characters, the tweet button should be disabled (and re-enabled when there are <= 140 chars).
  • When the user successfully inputs characters and clicks the “Tweet” button, a new tweet should be created and added to the tweet stream in the main column, using the user’s fake profile image in the top left and username/fullname.

PART TWO

• The tweet actions (Reply, Retweet, etc) should only show up when you hover over that individual tweet. Otherwise, they should be hidden.
• The Retweets/timestamp/Reply areas should also be hidden by default. These should only expand if you click on the tweet. Have the students use a jQuery animation to accomplish the reveal, similar to how it’s done on Twitter.com

ADVANCED: (Black Diamond)

• Make timestamps similar to how they look on Twitter (1h, 18m, 1m) and use the jQuery timeago plugin to make them automatic.
• Implement the icons for when a tweet is favorited/retweeted in the upper right of the tweet.
• Implement the Bootstrap tooltips for when you hover over a user’s avatar image
• Persist new tweets using local storage
• Persist new tweets using a service like parse https://parse.com/

Here's a list of (in my opinion) the jQuery 'Need to Knows'

• $(document).ready(function(){});
• $(“element”)
• $(‘‘idOrClass”)
• $(“idOrClass, idOrClass”)
• var myNameEle = $(‘<span>Tyler McGinnis </span>’)
• $(‘idOrClass’).prepend(myNameEle);
• $(‘idOrClass’).append(myNameEle) / myNameEle.$appendTo($(‘idOrClass’))
• $(‘idOrClass’).remove();
• $(‘idOrClass’).on(‘<event>’, function(){}); http://api.jquery.com/category/events/
• $(this)
• $(‘idOrClass’).val() //input, textarea, select
• $(‘idOrClass’).html()
• $('idOrClass').css()
• $(‘idOrClass’).text()
• $(‘idOrClass’).find()
• $(‘idOrClass’).show() // .hide();
• $(this).toggleClass(‘className’);