This application should give you a ready-made starting point for writing your own real-time apps with Sync. Before we begin, we need to collect all the config values we need to run the application:
| Config Value | Description |
|---|---|
| Service Instance SID | Like a database for your Sync data - generate one with the curl command below. |
| Account SID | Your primary Twilio account identifier - find this in the console here. |
| API Key | Used to authenticate - Use the IP Messaging dev tools to generate one here. |
| API Secret | Used to authenticate - just like the above, you'll get one here. |
During the Sync developer preview, you will need to generate Sync service instances via the REST API. This will eventually be replaced with a tool in the Twilio Console.
curl -X POST https://preview.twilio.com/Sync/Services \
-d 'FriendlyName=MySyncServiceInstance' \
-u 'SKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:your_api_secret'When you generate an API key pair at the URLs above, your API Secret will only
be shown once - make sure to save this in a secure location, or possibly your ~/.bash_profile.
Create a configuration file for your application:
cp config.sample.js config.jsEdit config.js with the four configuration parameters we gathered from above.
Next, we need to install our dependencies from npm:
npm installNow we should be all set! Run the application using the node command.
node .Your application should now be running at http://localhost:4567. Open this page in a couple browsers or tabs, and start syncing!
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