Web Demos

Web Application for DataTorrent Demos:

• Twitter URLs
• Twitter Hashtags
• Mobile
• Machine Generated Data
• Ads Dimensions
• Fraud

Architecture

Running Demos

Demos run on Node.js. See package to run demos with prefetched runtime dependencies (only Node.js is required).

Running Demos in Development Mode

Install npm dependencies:

   $ npm install

Install Bower dependencies:

   $ bower install

Start Node.js server:

   $ node app.js

Application will be available at http://localhost:3003

Demos configuration

Please use config.js or environment variables for configuration (DT Gateway, Redis, MongoDB, etc.). See dist_start.sh and dev_start.sh.

Applications are automatically discovered by name (to show stats like “Events/sec”). See the following settings in config.js:

• settings.twitterUrls.appName
• settings.twitterHashtags.appName
• settings.mobile.appName
• settings.machine.appName
• settings.dimensions.appName
• settings.fraud.appName

Tips

Running Node.js as a daemon with forever

   $ npm install forever -g
   $ forever start app.js
   $ forever list
   $ forever stop <uid>

Running Node.js on different port

   $ PORT=3001 node app.js

Links

Express Node.js web framework

node_redis Node.js Redis client

forever Node.js daemon/continuous running/fault tolerance