Secret Santa

About

This is an Express-based application that provides a simple form for users to sign up to a Secret Santa mailing group. The host can then login and send out the emails, one per person, telling each person who they need to buy a gift for.

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Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/cloakedninjas/secret-santa.git --depth 1

Usage

Copy or rename app/config/default.json to app/config/config.json to suit your needs. You should change the admin password as well as the default secrets for Session and Cookie storage.

Run the server using:

$ npm start

Config

title

Set the sub heading on the page

admin-password

The password to access the admin page located at /admin

deadline

Your chosen deadline, appears on the top left of the screen

spend-limit

Your chosen purchase allowance, appears on the top left of the screen

email-server

Currently only Send Grid (https://sendgrid.com/) is supported, sign up for a trial account to send free emails. Then paste your API key into the config

"email-server": {
    "type": "sendgrid",
    "from-address": "[email protected]",
    
    "options": {
      "api-key": "abc-123"
    }
}

cookie-secret

Used for Express's cookie parser middleware

session-secret

Used for Express's session middleware

Customizing

All templates (including the email) are stored in app/views, and are fully customizable.

• layout.ejs is the main template
• index.ejs is what users will see when they register

Other commands

npm run <cmd>

• test runs tests
• lint runs eslint over code
• css build and minifies the CSS