The Things Network microclient

This is a really tiny client for The Things Network mainly built as an excuse to try out now's mind-blowing service.

It is completely self-contained: you can host it locally or deploy it to a provider and it will just work on its own with zero-configuration.

Prerequisites

• Node.JS (use a new-ish version, like 5.9 or higher, I tested with 6.2 only)
• An account and application in the Dashboard.

Getting Started

• Clone this repository and open a terminal in that directory

• Install dependencies:

    $ npm install
  

• Run it:

    $ npm start
  

• Browse to localhost:8080

Deploying

If you want to release this onto the big wide interwebs, you can use any node.js hosting provider out there, but I did this only to try out now's insanely awesome one, so here's what I suggest.

• First make sure you have installed now globally:

    $ npm install -g now
  

• Login to now:

    $ now --login 
  

• Deploy:

    $ now
  

• Profit! 🚀

Credits

Based on Hylke Visser's socket.io example and The Things Network SDK for Node.js.