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:

During the Sync developer preview, you will need to generate Sync service instances via API until the Console GUI is available. Using the API key pair you generated above, generate a service instance via REST API with this curl command:

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.js

Edit config.js with the four configuration parameters we gathered from above.

Next, we need to install our dependencies from npm:

npm install

Now we should be all set! Run the application using the node command.

node .

Your application should now be running at http://localhost:3000. Open this page in a couple browsers or tabs, and start syncing!

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