The Daily Stoic API

This is a service created to get user`s phone number and based on the book The Daily Stoic - by Ryan Holiday, to send one message related to each day to the user throught a sms message.

https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Stoic-Meditations-Wisdom-Perseverance/dp/0735211736

Reflection

The main focus of this project was to integrate different services, such as. get information from the user and store it in the database, then use a service to switch the page to be presented accordingly with the day`s message contained in the book, then to loop throghout the user`s phone list and send a message to him.

Tecnologies used:

DATABASE: PostgreSQL provided by a Heroku

BACK-END - NodeJs using the following packages:

ExpressJs for the server along with some packages such as:

-Nodemon - for auto refresh after each change in the code in the development

-Dot-env - fot storaging the keys in the variable enviroment

-PostgreSQL - DataBase used to store user`s data

-AWS-sdk - Service used to send SMS

-jsdom - Service used to extract book`s epub format parts

Project`s Preview

Features to be implemented:

• Include services to send the message using different plataforms like: Whatsapp, Telegram, Email, etc

-Develop some authentication and data validation

-Implement payment methods

Installation

Clone down this repository. You will need node, npm or yarn installed globally on your machine.

yarn
yarn start

or

npm install
npm run start

The server should start at:

localhost:8081

About request to the API

To test the whole application you can access the service hosted on the cloud and interact directly with this project:

https://stoicapi.herokuapp.com/index/