How to use me ?

Step 1 - Background and description

Technology:

• nodejs - you know what it is :)
• firebase - hacker news API
• habitat - env variables
• nodemailer - email module

Description:

Hacker News notifier was built in order to get notifications if your domain has been posted on Hacker News. Tons of articles are going through the Hacker News (1 article per 5-10seconds) and you don't want to track all of those manually and hn-notifier comes to place! :)

Step 2 - Setup and installation

Setup:

In the project you can find env.dev file with the mockup that you need to fill in.

1. Run cp env.dev .env - creates a copy of a env.dev file

2. Fill in your credentials in .env file for email and domain you want to look for in HN

   export EMAIL=example@gmail.com
   export PASS=password
   export DOMAIN=gmail.com
   export KEYSELECTOR=google
   export NOTIFY=github.com #set the domain you want to be notified
   

3. Run npm install to download all the dependencies with npm manager

Start:

node index.js - start the app

Email example:

PS section

You can use pm2 module to run your app on the background:

1. Download and install pm2 -> npm install pm2 -g
2. Start app with pm2 start index.js

Conclusion

Enjoy getting the emails and then start promoting your article :)

More to come...