Coursework Planner (Live demo)
A web application for students to schedule work/milestones for courseworks
- Password hashing (argon2)
- Login/Registration
- Email verification (prevent spam accounts)
- Add/Delete/Edit Projects
- Add/Delete/Edit Project milestones
- Shows a list of projects and milestones that are due on the home page
- Shareable projects (show someone else your project and its milestones)
- A functioning MySQL database (We used MariaDB - https://mariadb.com/downloads/)
- Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/FrazzIe/wpd2_coursework
- Navigate to cloned reposiotry
- Install required dependecies
npm i
in command prompt - Import the
cw_planner.sql
file into your database - Configure database credentials etc in the
.env
file - Configure Email verification subject and body in the
config.js
file - Run the application
npm run start
in command prompt
- Sensitive information such as database credentails etc can be found in the
.env
file
# Database credentails
MYSQL_HOST=localhost
MYSQL_USER=root
MYSQL_PASS=
MYSQL_DB=cw_planner
# Session secret
SESSION_SECRET=meepmeep
# Email used for user verification
EMAIL_SECRET=meepmeep2
EMAIL_SERVICE=Gmail
EMAIL_USER=courseworkplanner@gmail.com
EMAIL_PASS=qwertyuiopxx2
# Share secret used when users share projects
SHARE_SECRET=meepmeep3
- Other settings can be found in the
config.js
file such as Email verfication settings (subject, body)