#Week 3: use Node.js to create a social media feed ##Time: one week
We will be building a Node.js application to access various social media APIs to collect posts for displaying on each of your blogs.
The initial task will be to create a gallery of tweeted images with the hashtag #FoundersandCoders on your blog, using the Twitter API and an application that responds to AJAX requests by serving JSON.
If you successfully complete this task, there are a number of possible extension tasks that you can attempt:
Create a real-time feed that automatically updates your page when new data is posted to Twitter; Store older tweets locally, so that when they are too old to be retrieved directly from the API, they can be retrieved locally; Use the Instagram API and display images from two different sources in the same page; There are several questions that you will have to answer to successfully complete this week's task:
*What is Node.js and how does it work; *What Node.js modules might there be to help us with this task; *How can we access the Twitter API; *How can we ensure that our API credentials are not shared publicly on GitHub; *How can we extract image URLs from the Twitter feed; *How can we repurpose the Twitter data to create our own data feed; *How can we extract that data to display on the page; *How can we make a nice-looking gallery page; *How far back do tweets served by the Twitter API go; *How can we store and extract data locally; *How can we extract data from the Instagram API; *How can we nicely combine data from two different sources; *Where can we serve our application from?