Year in Pixels Creator is a journaling web app for keeping track of your mood throughout the year through colors. Each day, you put in a color representing how the day went and write a note about it. At the end of the year, you have a grid full of colors representing your entire year in a colorful board of pixels.
https://year-in-pixels-creator.herokuapp.com/#/
It is built with a React frontend, an Express backend, and a MongoDB database. See the About Page for more information.
Currently deployed on Heroku using free web dynos and uses cron-job to keep the app awake 24/7.
- Accounts to store all user information online
- One board per year to keep track of your mood visually with colors
- Fully customizable color schemes
To run the app from the source code, you first need to create a .env file with the following parameters:
- ATLAS_URI: MongoDB Atlas URI link for storing data
- PORT: Port that the server will run on
- SESSION_SECRET: Randomly generated string for hashing session information
- VERIFICATION_EMAIL: Gmail used for sending verification emails
- VERIFICATION_PASSWORD: Password for the Gmail
Then, run npm install in the root directory to install the dependencies for the server, and then run npm start to begin the server backend. In a new terminal, navigate to /app and run npm install and npm start to run the frontend React app.