TAdS New Website Backend

TAdS New Website Backend

FILE STRUCTURE

As the code is broken down into different files, here is what each file contains

FILE NAME	CONTENT
index.js	Main file where all the functions are imported and called
auth.js	Authentication and function for sending mails using nodemailer
mailToClient.js	Function to send reply mail to the client
mailToTAdS.js	Function to send query mail to TAdS email address
route.js	POST request API definition at /contact
mailToClient.html	HTML Email boilerplate for reply mail to the client
mailToTAdS.html	HTML Email boilerplate for query mail to TAdS

Environment Variables (Secrets)

Create a file named .env locally. This file is gitignored. Add the following contents to it.

EMAIL={{email}}
REFRESH_TOKEN={{refreshToken}}
CLIENT_SECRET={{clientSecret}}
CLIENT_ID={{clientID}}

Replace {{email}} with the the email you wish to send emails with. {{refreshToken}} with the email's refresh token, {{clientSecret}} with the client secret and {{clientID}} with the client ID respectively

These variables will be accessible as process.env.EMAIL, process.env.REFRESH_TOKEN, process.env.clientSecret and process.env.CLIENT_ID in the javascript code.

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