Reddit Notifier

Demo

A nodeJS express service that handles:

• Creating and updating users
• Adding, and updating a user's favorite subreddits
• Sending out an email to each user at a choosen time (default daily at 8am), containing the top posts of each of their favorite subreddits
• Turning on and off the newsletter send out for a specific user

Rest API endpoints: Deployed base url

GET   /api/v1/users/:id
 Gets user with :id

POST  /api/v1/users/
 Creates a user with required params in body: id(string), name(string), email(string), favoriteSubreddits(Array of strings), sendNewsletter(boolean)

PUT   /api/v1/users/
 Updates user with id

PATCH /api/v1/users/favorite-subreddits/add
 Adds favorite subreddits to user. Body params: id, favoriteSubreddits

PATCH /api/v1/users/favorite-subreddits/add
 Removes favorite subreddits to user. Body params: id, favoriteSubreddits

PATCH /api/v1/set-send-newsletter
 Sets users sendNewsletter flag. Body params: id, sendNewsletter

GET   /api/v1/users/:id/newsletter
 Gets a user reddit newsletter in json(default) or html. Query params: id, contentType=html (this one is optional to see it in html)
 
GET   /api/v1/users/:id/send-newsletter
 Send reddit neewsletter email to the user with :id

To run it locally:

• Install dependencies npm install
• Set your env variables in the project root folder .env

  MONGO_DB_CONNECT=Your_mongo_db_connect_URI # Example: mongodb://admin:admin@localhost:27017/reddit-notifier?authSource=admin
  SENDGRID_API_KEY=Your_sendgrid_API_KEY
  

• Run without watching npm run start
• Run for dev (watches for any files changes) npm run start:dev

To run tests

• After dependencies are installed
• Run test npm run test
• Run test watching for changes npm run test:watch