Newsletter Platform with JavaScript, Flask, and MongoDB

This repository contains the code for the tutorial Building a Newsletter Platform with JavaScript, Flask, and MongoDB. This project showcases how to build a newsletter subscription platform using Flask for the backend, MongoDB for data storage, and JavaScript for dynamic user interactions.

🟢 Prerequisites

You must have:

• MongoDB installed on your machine.
• Mongosh for interacting with your MongoDB instance.
• RabbitMQ installed on your machine for message brokering.
• An App password generated for Gmail.

This project was run and tested on a Linux machine with an Ubuntu 22.04LTS distribution.

📦 Getting Started

• Fork this repo to your GitHub account by clicking the Fork button.
• Clone the repo to your machine.

[email protected]:<your-username>/newsletter-javascript-flask-mongodb.git

• Confirm the status of Mongod, your Rabbitmq-server and Mongosh.

sudo systemctl status mongod
sudo systemctl status rabbitmq-server
mongosh 

• Populate the following fields - MAIL_USERNAME, MAIL_PASSWORD, MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER in the config.py with your Gmail username, app password and email address.

• Run the flask application using the following command:

flask --app app run

• Start the celery worker

celery -A app.celery worker --loglevel=info