StevieWhale

Real-Time Printing Experience

What is StevieWhale?

StevieWhale — is a web-application the main feature of which is to print tagged photos from Instagram in real-time. The application looks for a photos tagged with special tag and then prints it using one of the connected print stations. The Print Station — is a printer connected through socket.io to the main server. Print Station basically holds connection and waits for the print job to arrive.

The most interesting part — you don't know exactly on which print station the photo is going to be printed. The motivation of this project is to make people happy by bringing them the experience of real printed photos.

Directory Structure

app/ Client-side logic (front-end): scripts, assets, styles, templates etc. The content of this folder is used by Brunch to build public/ directory.
server/ Server-side logic (back-end).
public/ The folder contains built static files. The files inside this folder are generated automaticaly!

Building

First of all, make sure you have node.js installed.

Install development tools:

npm install -g coffee-script bower brunch

Install both npm and bower (server and client side package managers respectively) dependencies:

npm install && bower install

Build client-side script and assets (using Brunch assembler):

brunch build --production

Hint: use the following command for development, it will refresh page every time client-side files are changed:

brunch watch

Launch server-side scripts:

coffee server/index.coffee

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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