twister-react

A drop-in-replacement for twister-html written in React using Bootstrap with the paper theme.

It builds upon twister-lib-js which enables browser-side-cryptography meaning that the private twister key is generated in the browser and does not leave the browser. It is meant to be used together with a remote twister-proxy that is accessible from anywhere enabling a normal web-like usage. Because of browser-side-cryptography communication is secured end-to-end and the twister-proxy is highly exchangeable.

twister-react is currently in alpha phase. Use at your own risk.

Missing Features

• User Search
• Trending Hashtags
• Direct Messages
• Promoted Posts

Publicly hosted instances (use at your own risk)

Url	Admin	Location	Note
https://twister-proxy.tschaul.com/index.html	@tschaul	Germany	No guaranteed uptime, often used for testing purposes

Your proxy is missing? Drop me a line or make a pull request!

Setup as hosted by a public twister proxy (ubuntu 15.10)

First we install the basic dependecies.

apt-get update
apt-get install -y git curl nodejs nodejs-legacy npm
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh

Now we pull twister-core.

git clone https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-core.git

mkdir ~/.twister
echo -e "rpcuser=user\nrpcpassword=pwd\nhtmldir=~/twister-react" > ~/.twister/twister.conf
chmod 600 ~/.twister/twister.conf

Next pull this repo and twister-proxy.

git clone https://github.com/Tschaul/twister-react.git
git clone https://github.com/digital-dreamer/twister-proxy.git

npm install -g forever

We setup twister-proxy and pull the settings from this repo.

cd twister-proxy
npm install
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tschaul/twister-react/master/docker/settings.json > settings.json
cd ..

Next we need the start script from this repo and set the correct rights.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tschaul/twister-react/master/docker/run.sh > run.sh
chmod 777 run.sh 

For https to work we need certificates.

git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt

./letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto certonly --standalone

letsencrypt will ask you to provide an email address and your domain. It will then save your certificates in /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/ where example.com is your domain.

For last step we have to tell twister-proxy where the certificates are.

nano twister-proxy/settings.json 

Inside "Server" replace example.com by your domain in a the "ssl_*" properties. Press Crtl+O to save and then Crtl+X to exit.

Now we can start it up. When starting for the first time it will pull the twister docker-image.

./run.sh

twisterd now needs a while (10min to 1h depending on your connection) to download the blockchain. You can check top to see if twisterd is still busy. If it's not busy anymore (cpu at around 10%) it's ready to use. Go to https://example.com/index.html where example.com is your domain and start twisting :-).

To stop twisterd and the proxy, run:

killall twisterd
killall nodejs

If twister-proxy is hanging itself regularly try updating nodejs to a newer version:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/426750/how-can-i-update-my-nodejs-to-the-latest-version

Screenshots

The home screen with two click account switching

The new post modal

The profile page on the posts tab

The profile page on the following tab

The profile page on the mentions tab

The conversation page