Tweet Stub Helper

Simple app for creating tweet stubs from a Google Sheet.

👀 Demo

To demo the default behavior set up for CivicTechTO, just visit:

civictechto.github.io/tweet-stub-helper

🛠️ Technologies Used

• Twitter Web Intents. Provide popup-optimized flows for working with pre-composed fragments for tweeting.
• Javascript
  • VueJS. Progressive framework for building user interfaces.
  • PapaParse. Powerful, in-browser CSV parser.
• Bootstrap (CSS). HTML, CSS and JavaScript Framework that is used in front-end web development.
• GitHub Pages.
  • Jekyll. A popular static site generator written in Ruby.

🚀 How It Works

The app does the following when you visit it:

1. Grabs the data from a designated Google Spreadsheet*.
2. Loops through rows, checking the date column* until it finds one in the future. (Default: date)
3. On finding a future event, grabs the stub content from a specific column*. (Default: presenter_social_media)
4. If no #hashtags or @handles found in that stub content, uses the default_tweet config*.
5. Redirects browser to a page that will auto-initiate a Tweet with that content.

* ^configurable

Note: We have an intermediary button-click involved so that mobile apps open the web intent properly, rather than getting stuck redirecting to Twitter's web intent webpage in browser.

⚙️ Configuration

Configurable values can be set in _config.yml.

💻 Local Development

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve