Twitter widgets for Vaadin

Twitter widgets for Vaadin is a Vaadin addon that provides UI components for integrate an application with Twitter using Twitter for Websites.

Following widgets are implemented

• Single Tweet
• Follow Button
• Tweet Button
• Hashtag Button
• Mention Button
• Timeline

For more information see Twitter for Websites documentation.

Online demo

Try the add-on demo at https://mbf-vaadin-twitter-widgets.herokuapp.com/

Download release

Official releases of this add-on are available at Vaadin Directory. For Maven instructions, download and reviews, go to https://vaadin.com/directory#!addon/twitter-widgets-for-vaadin.

Building and running demo

git clone https://github.com/mcollovati/vaadin-twitter-widgets                                                   
mvn clean install
cd demo
mvn jetty:run

To see the demo, navigate to http://localhost:8080/

Release notes

Version 1.0

• Single Tweet
• Follow Button
• Tweet Button
• Hashtag Button
• Mention Button
• Timeline

Roadmap

This component is developed as a hobby with no public roadmap or any guarantees of upcoming releases.

That said, the following features are planned for upcoming releases:

• Better widget loading
• Server side listeners for script events
• Moment
• Single Tweet with Video
• Twitter Cards

Investigation on REST and Streaming APIs are also planned.

Issue tracking

The issues for this add-on are tracked on its github.com page. All bug reports and feature requests are appreciated.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome, but there are no guarantees that they are accepted as such. Process for contributing is the following:

• Fork this project
• Create an issue to this project about the contribution (bug or feature) if there is no such issue about it already. Try to keep the scope minimal.
• Develop and test the fix or functionality carefully. Only include minimum amount of code needed to fix the issue.
• Refer to the fixed issue in commit
• Send a pull request for the original project
• Comment on the original issue that you have implemented a fix for it

License & Author

Add-on is distributed under Apache License 2.0. For license terms, see LICENSE.txt.

Developer Guide

Getting started

Here is a simple example on how to try out the add-on component:

addd a dependency to your pom

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.vaadin.addon</groupId>
        <artifactId>twitter-widgets</artifactId>
        <version>ENTER LATEST VERSION</version>
    </dependency>

and use the component in your code

    new CssLayout(
        new Tweet(tweetId).withDarkTheme().withoutCards(),
        TweetButton.share(url).withText("Share this!").large(),
        TweetButton.hashtag("vaadin").withHashtag("vaadindirectory", "add-on"),
        TweetButton.mention("vaadin").withVia("marcoc_753")
            .withText("Test some twitter API")
            .withRelated("twitterapi", "twitter")                    
    );

For a more comprehensive example, see src/main/java/org/vaadin/addon/twitter/demo/DemoUI.java in demo project.

API

Twitter widgets for Vaadin JavaDoc is available online at https://mbf-vaadindemo.herokuapp.com/docs/twitter-widgets/api/