Kata-birthday by Azecko

What's that?

This repository is a NodeJS script that send emails to remind the birthday of someone (from a JSON file).

Make it work

1. Clone the repository on your computer.
2. Type npm install to install dotenv and nodemailer (required to make the program work).
3. Rename the file .env_example in .env.
4. Insert your own data in the .env file (e.g. to be able to send mail).
5. Rename the file birthdays.json_example in birthdays.json.
6. Insert your own data in the birthdays.json file.
7. Run node index.js to start the program
8. Enjoy!

Ansible

You may want to deploy this project using Ansible. It uses the Ansible Suitcase and will deploy the project in a Docker container plus a crontab (which will run at 7:03am).

Be sure to configure your host in inventory.yml and then run ./ops/birthsible.

Greetings

Thanks to @ponsfrilus for the help on the script. Thanks to https://freshservice.com/general/top-it-quotes-blog/ for the quotes. Thanks to https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/Notepad_plus.cpp#L7103 for the quotes.