TheReactDev

The function that feeds @TheReactDev twitter.

This project was inspired by this article.

This function depends on a few environment variables:

• dev_tag: the dev.to tag to which the crawler will get the latest articles.
• twitter_bot_screen_name: the name of the account that will tweet the articles.
• Twitter keys:
  • twitter_consumer_key
  • twitter_consumer_secret
  • twitter_access_token
  • twitter_access_token_secret
• telegram_bot_token: the telegram bot who's going to log messages for maintenance/debug purposes
• telegram_chat_id: the channel where the bot will send messages

You just need to create a env.yml file and put those values in, like this:

dev_tag: "react"
twitter_bot_screen_name: "NameOfTheTwitterAccount"
twitter_consumer_key: "..."
twitter_consumer_secret: "..."
twitter_access_token: "..."
twitter_access_token_secret: "..."
telegram_bot_token: "..."
telegram_chat_id: "..."

It's worth noting that I used telegram here because it was simple and it probably is the fastest way I can see a message in case things go wrong. Probably sentry.io would be more

I started using azure, like twitter-vue-dev, but after a few hours of headaches I'm switching to the serverless framework with aws.