Setup a .env file

For this to work, you need a .env file. Make a new file in the base directory after cloning, create a .env file which contains the following

#mongodb details
mongooseUri=LINK_TO_YOUR_MONGODB_URI

# email connection details
contactEmail=EMAIL_ACCOUNT
contactPassword=PASSWORD_FOR_EMAIL
contactHost=SMTP_HOST.com

You will need to setup a webmail account on a server. You can do this easily through services like Plesk (if you have that installed on your server). There are other methods too. Read up on Node Mailer for more details.

Installing Modules

Don't forget to run npm install after cloning so that all node_modules will be added to your project.

Running the server

You will have to run both files for this to work. You can start up both files with the pm2 node package.

• ./index.js will have the two routes for subscriptions and unsubscribing, Letting us control the data in the database
• ./daemons/subscription.daemon.js will send emails at regular intervals to users

To start up both, run the following two commands:

pm2 start ./daemons/subscription.daemon.js
pm2 start index.js