SocialCount

It watches a certain facebook page and displays the number of likes that a particular page has got in whatever mendix application its embeded in

Features

Displays number of likes of a particular facebook page

Dependencies

Mendix 6.10
Mendix 7.3

Demo Project

https://SocialCounts.mxapps.io/

Usage

The widget requires a context

Properties.

Datasource: The context attribute to be set
Appearence: How the retrieved information will be displayed.

Source

Sources and sample project at Github please contribute fixes and extensions at

 https://github.com/SamuelMuloki/SocialCount

Issues, suggestions and feature requests

We are actively maintaining this widget, please report any issues or suggestion for improvement at https://github.com/SamuelMuloki/SocialCount/issues.

Development

Prerequisite: Install git, node package manager, webpack CLI and grunt CLI

To contribute, fork and clone.

git clone https://github.com/SamuelMuloki/SocialCount.git

The code is in typescript. Use a typescript IDE of your choice, like Visual Studio Code or WebStorm.

To set up the development environment, run:

npm install

Create a folder named dist in the project root.

Create a Mendix test project in the dist folder and rename its root folder to SocialCounts-main. Changes to the widget code shall be automatically pushed to this test project.

dist/SocialCounts-main

To automatically compile, bundle and push code changes to the running test project, run:

Known bugs

Non so far

Frequently Asked Questions

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