Wish Creating App

An app that creates preferred wishes by uploading a photo for the wish with your name and message you can also send it to someone to wish them.

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Quick Start

This section will be a short guide to setup this app for use with some steps.

1. Select a hosting provider for nodejs apps

Some preferred ones are below

• DigitalOcean

• Vultr

2. Set up a server and the node app

Use this repo's link while cloning in the tutorial

• How to setup the server

3. Setup MongoDB

Create and setup account at MongoDB Atlas and copy the DataBase url and paste in a new file .env in the base app folder.

sudo nano .env

Then add MONGOURL = 'https://yoururl.to.mongo.atlas' in the .env file and save it.

4. Run the below commands

npm install

This will install the required npm packages.

sudo npm install -g pm2
cd the-folder
sudo pm2 start server.js

After this continue following the tutorial for nginx part.

5. Add ads if you want

This little app also enable to add your ads, Paste the header code of Adsense, I dont know about other ad services. Between the head tag in both the files in views folder which are index.hbs and wish.hbs.

<!-- Adsense header code below -->
<!-- Adsense header code above -->

And then paste the adcode between the comments

<!-- Adsense code below -->
<!-- Adsense code above -->

That's it, start using the app

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Author

Afnan Shaikh