Social connections are overrated-they only lead to trouble, pain, and lawsuits. Modern social networks have given rise to trolls, fake news, and mansplaining.

Introducing getRANTR, the revolutionary anti-social distributed network. getRANTR gives you all the obsessive status updating of a social network, with non of the misunderstandings and hurt feelings. With getRANTR, no one can see you RANT.

getRANTR is a distributed network. This means you download the code and run it yourself! No more annoying "public websites" or "cloud infrastructure". getRANTR includes all the fun of running your own technology stack.

getRANTR is built on NodeJS. If you don't have it already, you can download the latest runtime from the NodeJS website. For best results, we recommend using version 4.6.0 or higher.

You may also need the following tools to enhance or debug getRANTR:

• Atom or another JavaScript-aware text editor
• Chrome web browser
• Charles or Fiddler web proxy

getRANTR uses gulp to handle installation and build automation. You'll want to have it installed globally in your Node packages. You'll also need to install all the local dependencies, in the same directory as getRANTR for running getRANTR:

npm install gulp --global
npm install

After setting everything up and installing the dependencies, you can run getRANTR by:

npm start

This will run getRANTR at http://www.getRANTR.com:9000/ and will setup to automatically reload if any of the source files are changed.

/build          Automation and build tasks
/data           Data location for getRANTR users
/exercises      Guides and help for workshop exercises
/node_modules   There be dragons here
/src            Source code
  /controllers  Server API actions
  /public       Client-side application (this is probably what you are looking for)
/test           Source code tests

There are three example users loaded into the system. You can impersonate them with the following commands, after closing the node session (control and C on Mac):

node import 1   # Will impersonate Todd's default account
node import 2   # Will impersonate the Keystone user account
node import 3   # Will impersonate Todd's alt account

Todd's default account is loaded automatically when you install.

Happy Ranting!