"Secret Santa is a Christmas tradition in which members of a group or community are randomly assigned a person to whom they give a gift. The identity of the gift giver is a secret not to be revealed." (Wikipedia)
You can use this website to do your secret santa pairings for your group.
As a user you can:
- Register for an account
- Log in to that account
- Create a group and add names to it
- See a list of your current groups and participants in each groups
- Delete participant(s)
- Edit participants names
- Delete group
- Draw names(randomly pair secret santa's)- each participant will recieve an email with the name of the person they're buying a present for .
Built with postgresql, nodejs, javascript, html and css.
Npm modules nodemailer, bcryptjs,
Our project is hosted on Heroku, but if you would like to run it locally please follow these instructions:
PostgreSQL, Node
git clone https://github.com/Gbaja/secret-santa-generator.git
Switch to the directory
cd secret-santa-generator
Install dependencies
npm i
Environment variables
Create a config.env file in the root directory with the following environment variables:
DATABASE_URL = [a url to a PostgreSQL Database, setup with our db_build.sql]
SECRET = [a secret sequence of letters / numbers for signing JWT tokens]
Run a Dev Server
npm run dev
The main thing I was hoping to get out of this project was to understand the relations between front end, backend and how to use database to save and retrieve data. It was a good insight into how it all fits together. At first, I was confused about making an XMLHttRequest to get or post data to be used in the back end. This is because a url to me had always been a website one but by making this web app, I was able to familiarise myself with the concept. I have also been able to improve my ability to write SQL statements to make queries to add or get data from database. I really enjoyed working with database and hope to learn more about it, SQL to be more specific. Learning about things like the content editable attribute in html was interesting.