Secrets Project

📃 Overview

🎯 Intro: A secrets project which will show you secrets after Authentication from your Google account.

🎖 Feature:

1. You can sign in or log in( if already signed in ) by your google accout.
2. You can add your secrets and make them private and can be only accessed after Authentication from google.

Technologies Used

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, EmbeddedJs, JavaScript
• Backend: Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL
• Authentication: OAuth using Google
• Database: PostgreSQL

Authentication with Google

How Authentication with Google works in this project. This include:

1. Registering your project with the Google Developers Console
2. Setting up OAuth 2.0 credentials
3. Integrating the Google Sign-In button into your application(which is included in code)
4. Handling authentication tokens and user sessions

You can the get the step by step process of Setting up your Google OAuth Credentials here : https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-credentials

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/HarsikaKumari/secretsProject.git

2. Install the dependencies for the frontend:

   cd secretsProject 
   npm install

3. Set up the environment variables:

   • Create a .env file in the directory.
   • Add the following variables to the .env file and provide appropriate values:

     GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID="Your google Client Id"
     GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET="Your google Client Secret"
     SESSION_SECRET="Any word as you want"
     PG_USER="postgres"
     PG_HOST="localhost"
     PG_DATABASE="Your database name"
     PG_PASSWORD="Your pg password"
     PG_PORT="5432"
     

4. Access the application in your browser at http://localhost:3000.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please create a new issue or submit a pull request.