client-vs-server-performance-test

Installation

First of all you need nodejs and mongodb get the latest mongodb version from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads and the latest nodejs version from http://nodejs.org/
Open your terminal and change into the directory of this project
Install the node packages via npm "sudo npm install"
Start the mongodb "mongod"
Start nodejs server "node testplatform"

To seed the local db the testplatform uses the twitter api
You need to setup a twitter app on https://dev.twitter.com/apps
Open locolhost:3001/seeddb and enter the consumer key and consumer secret of your twitter app This will be only saved in your localdb and can not read by anyone else
Enter a search term where a lot of tweets are curretnly posted (e.g. prism, cats, ...) and enter the amount of tweets you want to fetch. You can repeat this step as often as you wanted depending of the amount of entities you want for your rendertest

Open localhost:3001/tweets/render
Select the approach you want to test (server side rendering or client side rendering)
Enter the start and end amount of the amount of entities you want to test
Enter the interval
If you uncheck save test results the measured time will not be saved into local database and there will not be an iterative test
If you uncheck disable profile pictures the rendered templates will use a default profile picture instead of the twitter user profile pic. This option reduces unessesary traffic for the tests
Start the test