Outline

Project Overview

A Rust project that aims to create a user interface (UI) for accessing / interacting with Twitter direct messages (DMs).

This project accesses the Twitter API using Rust egg_mode.

This project currently uses a rusqlite database to temporarily store and access DMs.

UI Example:

What needs to be done?

1. Decide display method, e.g., TUI-Rust, webapp?

   • twitter_api.rs :: fn requesting_user_authoriation must be changed based on the medium
   • Make this easy for recruiters to USE, easy to UNDERSTAND visually

2. twitter_api.rs :: fn get_direct_messages

   • Current limit on amount of tweets you can get - How can I increase this limit?
   • Decide: We don't need all the info contained in the hashmap, should we create a custom data structure?
   • This data structure would be the same (e.g., HashMap<k,v> = <ConvoIDs, Messages> )

3. How to deliver data I already have? Should I store data in a database?

4. React version -> How to deliver data from Rust HashMap to JavaScript?

   • Option 1: Output HashMap to JSON - import with JavasScript

5. VIP Adding new conversations

   • Find the user
   • Verify if there was any previous chat history, if yes, import chats. If not, create new chat.

6. Sending a message to someone

   • Get user text-message input
   • Send user message

7. Recieving messages / Updating chat history

   • How to do this efficiently without hitting API call limit?
   • Do you have to pay to increase limit?

What's the MVP? Just ship a project!

GET

[] Messages on start up and insert into User Interface (UI)
[] Messages periodically, continually check for updates 

POST

[] Send messages within EXISTING conversations and update UI
    [] Send a message
    [] Update a conversation 

Testing !

[ ] ADD THIS !