Anonymous Confessions - A CRUD webapp written in vanilla NodeJS

The goals of the project:

• Understand how expressjs works under the hood
• Connect the small pieces that expressjs takes care of
• Imitate the functionality that some useful middlewares takes care of
• Study the source code of these middlewares to imitate their functionality

NOT the goals of the project:

• To create the entire functionality of expressjs
• To create every functionality from scratch
• To not use a single external package

Todos:

• Make a logger
• Use pug and render error.stack if error or the html
• Write error control, use EventEmitter
• Learn to use headers to redirect users
• Landing page which will have 5 most popular confessions in last 24 hours (Usage of aggregations)
• Confession should be accompanied by title, date and beginning of confession
• Use sessions to give flashes
• Confessions page with pagination
• Try authentication for moderator to delete or edit the confession
• Make two user roles for staff - moderator and admin
• Create dashboard for staff to moderate confessions
• Only admin can make new staff accounts
• Moderator can mark and edit confessions but not delete
• Admin can view the marked confessions and unmark or delete them
• Profile page for staff with titles they edited and marked
• Create own sessions without packages (Check vanilla-sessions branch for the implementation)
• Create csrf tokens and validate them
• Use Intl.RelativeTimeFormat API to get relative time