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Here you can subscribe to this service and get info about latest news and notices of MSIT,via email. This app scrapes data from :

http://www.msit.in/notices

and

http://www.msit.in/latest_news

This application uses cron jobs in order to overcome the sleep times of the Heroku dynos in its free version.

https://console.cron-job.org/

To run this application locally

NOTE:You need to set up your own app password(APP_PASS) for gmail or any other email client(MUA) that you use and create a .env file in the root folder. You also need to set up your own MongoDB cluster and provide its URL(DB_URL) in the aforementioned .env file

The basic steps for setting it up locally are:
  • Clone this repo
  • cd MSIT-Updates
  • Install dependencies
    • npm install
  • Start the server
    • node app.js
  • Open the browser
    • localhost:3000