emails-app's Introduction

Email App

This is a back-end application which sends speaks to a React front-end to send emails.

📋 Aims of App

Allow the user to be able to send emails

👩‍💻 Technical Details

NodeJS
Nodemailer
CORs
Express

🔧 How to Run the App

npm install
npm start

Setting up .env credentials

In order to use this app alongside the reminders app you will need to set up an .env file
Create a .env file in the root of the emails-app directory
In the .env file add the follow:

EMAIL= <your-gmail-email>
WORD= <you-gmail-password>
OAUTH_CLIENTID= <token-generated-below>
OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET= <token-generated-below>
OAUTH_REFRESH_TOKEN= <token-generated-below>

To generate the client ID and client secret token:
- Head over to Google Cloud Platform
- Select new project
- Give the project a name and then, go to APIs and Services (on the left hand side)
- Select OAuth consent screen
- Select external and then use your gmail acc as user support email (ignore app domain)
- Click next on scope page
- Add yourself (gmail acc) as test user
- Click on credentials on the left hand menu. Click the plus sign and then click OAuth client ID
- Select web application as the application type
- In URI add the url: https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground
- Once you click create you should see a client ID and client secret
To generate the refresh token:
- Header over to https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
- Click on the gear icon on the right and check the user your own OAuth credentials box
- Put in the client ID and secret generated above
- On the left menu, select Gmail API v1
- Click continue on 'vertified this app'
- Click exchange authorization code for tokens
- You should see a refresh and access token