My motivation for building Acaply was to primarily understand the interactions between the server side and client side portions of a feature-dense application.

The most challenging aspect of the project was handling user authentication and managing user sessions. I learned how to setup secure signup, login, session, and password reset features. In addition, with the help of mongoose and bcrpyt, I also understood how to store user data and hash account passwords.

• Server: Node.js/Express, Javascript, Mongoose
• UI: HTML, CSS, EJS.
• Database: MongoDB
• Other: SendGrid, Vercel, MongoDB Atlas

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Live Demo
To get a local copy up and running follow these steps.

1. NPM is required to run this project.

   npm install npm@latest -g

2. Create a free MongoDB database using Atlas.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/pillious/Acaply.git

2. Install NPM packages

   cd Acaply
   npm install

3. Create a .env file inside the root directory.
4. Add environment variables to .env

   DATABASE_USERNAME=[your_mongodb_atlas_username]
   DATABASE_PASSWORD=[your_mongodb_atlas_password]
   USER_SESSION_KEY=[encryption_key*]
   SENDGRID_API_KEY=[your_sendgrid_api_key]
   RESET_PASSWORD_EMAIL_ID=[sendgrid_email_id]

   * Randomly generate encryption key
5. Run the project on localhost:3000

   npm start

   Deploy using Vercel

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Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

Andrew Lee (pillious) - [email protected]
(My Website)

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