Secrets

🤐 An app where a user can sign up and write messages anonymously.

Idea

• Many people today want to comment something or say something online without revealing their identity
• Secrets app is an initiative where people can post about anything anonynously
• Users can also see other people's comments which are anonymous as well

Technologies

• Used HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap and JavaScript to develop the front-end
• Node.js and Express.js to create server and develop back-end
• Used MongoDB (Mongoose) as the database
• EJS as the template engine
• Used Passport.js to implement third party OAuth2 to authorize the users using Google and Facebook

Prerequisite

• Download, install and setup Node.js
• Download, install and setup MongoDB and Robo3T
• Install Nodemon (optional)

Setup

• User needs to Clone the repo using git clone to their local repo
• Now, open gitbash or any other terminal and navigate to the project folder
• Next step is to install the node modules using the command npm install
• When the modules are installed, type node app.js. User can also type nodemon app.js if they have nodemon installed
• Running the command will set up our server and the user can see the message - "Server has started running successfully"

Getting Started

• Now, user needs to open the browser and go to localhost:3000 to open the website
• User can now follow the prompts on the website to register and login on the app. User can also login using there Google or Facebook id
• When user is logged in, the user can see all the post. They can also click on Submit a Secret button which will redirect them to the next page
• On the next page, user can type their secret and and click on submit button to post their Secret on the main page.
• A user can also logout from the app when the message has been posted

Screenshots

• Register Page

• Login Page

• Page when a user log in

• Page where a user can type a secret

• User posts a secret