README.md

Happy Messages Bot

Description

This bot was created to send happy email messages to my Mom at set times throughout the day and year.
At 9, noon and 6pm, different greetings will be sent to my mom.
I have also created a message to remind my mom to drink water. That goes out every day at 1pm.
Inside the messages.js and holiday-messsages.js file, I have created all of the variables for the messages.
The bot also sends out messages once a year on Christmas, Valentines Day and New Year's Day.

How to fork a repo

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/fork-a-repo

How run the bot locally

1. In your terminal, run git clone https://github.com/YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME/Happy_Messages_Bot.git.
2. In your terminal, under the project directory, run npm install to add the node_modules folder
3. In your terminal, under the project directory, run touch .env. Store these variables inside the file with our own email address, password and mom's email.

ADMIN_EMAIL = YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS 
ADMIN_PASSWORD = YOUR PASSWORD
MOM_EMAIL = YOUR MOM'S EMAIL

4. In your terminal, run npm start

If you want to test sending your own message, then run this code.

//this runs every minute after the server starts
nodeCron.schedule('* * * * *', () => {
  async function testingMsg() {
    let info = await transporter.sendMail({
    from: ADMIN_EMAIL, // sender address
    to: MOM_EMAIL, // list of receivers
    subject: "Just testing", // Subject line
    text: "Hello world?", // plain text body
    html: "<b>Hello world?</b>", // html text
    })
    console.log(`Message send: ${info.messageId}`)
  }
  testingMsg().catch(console.error);
});

Technologies used

Node.js
Express.js

Packages used

NodeMailer
Node-cron
Nodemon

Node Cron syntax

 # ┌────────────── second (optional)
 # │ ┌──────────── minute
 # │ │ ┌────────── hour
 # │ │ │ ┌──────── day of month
 # │ │ │ │ ┌────── month
 # │ │ │ │ │ ┌──── day of week
 # │ │ │ │ │ │
 # │ │ │ │ │ │
 # * * * * * *