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R. StringerReal-Time Twilio and Flybasehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7074-5_2

2. Building a Live Blogging Tool

Roger Stringer1  
(1)
Penticton, BC, Canada
 

Live blogging is pretty handy when attending events; it never hurts to be able to live blog about the latest new gadgets as they are announced.

We’re going to build a simple live blogging app using Node.js, Flybase, and Twilio.

This particular live blog solution is set up for one event. This means all posts to the phone number we specify will show up.

You could build on this to allow for multiple events, but that’s a little more than we want to dive into today.

The Setup

We’ll be using a few tools to build ...

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