Shared Windows

Share a browsing experience.

What is it?

• A list making tool,
• That can show you websites in the list,
• And synchronize that preview with all your friends!

What can you do with it?

• Share the web browser with your friends
• Present a slideshow over the internet
• Control what is displayed on many computers from a single computer
• Post lists to lists for a "file directory"-esq experience

How to use it:

Go to : Shared Windows Tutorial

How to access it (pre-alpha):

Got to : Shared Windows

Careful! It's fragile!

How to host your own:

Install prerequisites:

• Visual Studio or XCode (sign Xcode's license agreement!!!)
• nodejs
• npm install sqlite3
• npm install socket.io
• npm install jsdom
• npm install multiparty
• npm install http-get

1. Open "sharedwindows/server/" in your command prompt.
2. run "node server.js"
3. The default port is 80 (http). To change that, use: "node server.js [http port]".

for example: node server.js 8080

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Issues:

Database problems? Create a fresh database!

1. Go into database/ and delete db.sqlite.
2. Copy dbClean.sqlite
3. name it db.sqlite.

JSDOM issues?

• JSDOM relies on contextify, which relies on node-gyp.
• Node-gyp needs Visual Studio or XCode installed.
• Hint for Windows: node-gyp
• Hints for XCode: Xcode->Preferences->Downloads and install component named "Command Line Tools". XCode may ask you to sign a liscense via the command line.

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Extending the code:

• This projects consists of a client and a server.
• Run the server as described above.
• It'll serve you a copy of the client on port 80.

The server code is in the folder labeled "server". The client is in "webClient". The server pulls from the "database/db.sqlite" often.

There are read-mes in the client and server folders.

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