FaceTeX

A tool that lets you communicate in LaTeX to your friends over Facebook chat. Simply add “Jaredbot Winowat” to your group chat and type $yourLaTeXhere$ to get started.

Instructions

Heroku

If you're deploying on Heroku, click the deploy button above then you only need to follow step 1 & 2 of the manual instructions

Manual

1. Fork the repository and create a separate dummy account on Facebook
2. Set the environment variables FB_USERNAME, FB_PASSWORD, and HEROKU_INSTANCE accordingly OR replace the fields in config.json
3. Install dependencies with npm install
4. Run with npm start
5. After that you should be ready to go!

Contributors

@webfreak7

Credits

Thank you to facebook-chat-api and mathjax-node for making the majority of this happen!