🙏 mettabot 🙏

Maitrī (Sanskrit; Pali: mettā) means benevolence, loving-kindness, friendliness, amity, good will, and active interest in others.

Short Description

A pep talk generator for experimenting with css/svg animation, speech synthesis, and chat bot APIs.

Live Demo

Table of Contents

• Background
• Install
• Usage
• API
• Contributing
• License

Background

This project was born out of the synthesis of a few goals:

• build a web app from the ground up without a heavy framework
• spread some encouragement, joy, and kindness into the online community
• delve deeper into CSS Animations
• provide a jumping off point for other explorations such as chat bots and speech synthesis

Install

• Fork/clone repo
• Run npm install to install dependencies
• Run npm run dev to run server in development mode using nodemon
• Run npm start to run server in production mode

Dependencies

• express
• twitter-api-v2
• dotenv
• nodemon (development only)

Usage

Frontend

Home route at / in browser displays animated random message as static site

API

API endpoint at /api/message returns random message in JSON format as "text" field API endpoint at /api/twitter/asme triggers OAuth2 flow. Upon authentication, bot will update the authenticated users status with a random message.

Contributing

If you'd like to add additional phrases to mettabot, submit a pull request on the files in /messages that adds suggested strings to the array.

The format is simple - there are 4 parts (files labeled p1...p4).

• Part 1 - The greeting: e.g."Hello there,"
• Part 2 - The subject of the compliment: e.g. "your hair today"
• Part 3 - The compliment: e.g. "is the best I've ever seen"
• Part 4 - The closer: e.g. "without a doubt."

follow exisiting examples in the array for formatting

Messages must be wholesome and kind.

If you'd like to contribute to additional features, contact me at erich@zenlex.dev

License

GNU General Public License