Guestbooky proposes something slightly deviating from the usual guestbook taken from 1998: while we gladly accept your messages, thank you very much, reading them is limited to the receiver. *I mean, of course they can show them to others should they want-*
That means it is something useful for engaged couples and other folks with a moment or two to set everything up. I really need to get my hands dirty from time to time, so I figured I'd make a guestbook for my marriage hotsite. And make everyone else see this code.
It includes many concepts that are very reasonable to tinker with as learning material, in a bite-sized project complexity that allows me to talk about it without losing the breadcrumb trail.
## 🏁 Getting Started <a name = "getting_started"></a>
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See [deployment](#deployment) for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
You will need to set them up either by hand or by using your IDE's capabilities. On Visual Studio, that can be done via the Debug Properties of Guestbooky.API.
|**CORS_ORIGINS**, **ACCESS_\***|Variables related to JWT issuing and checking. In order to use the GET and DELETE endpoints for the messages, you need to use a bearer token.|
|**CLOUDFLARE_SECRET**|The turnstile secret, used in the server portion of the captcha check.|
|**MONGODB_\***|Related to the connection to MongoDB. Yeah.|
Using [nvm](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm) should make things straightforward enough for your environment if you don't have Node up yet. Then do the usual `npm i` (or equivalent) in the Admin Panel's `src/Guestbooky-admin` folder and such to get the packages, which should include Vite.
For development, it should be enough to run `vite` in Guestbooky-admin's `src` folder.
In order to create a live version, adjust the **API_URL** path in `Guestbooky-admin/src/environment/constants.js`, and execute `vite build`. The application will be prepared and sent to `src/Guestbooky-admin/dist`. Send to your hosting solution and you should be good.
