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