Post-it!

My implementation of the mini message board project for The Odin Project. Check out the live preview!

Description

This is a message board where users can post a message for others to see. It was built using Express, EJS and PostgreSQL.

Features

• Renders messages posted by other users
• Allows user to view details of messages
• Stores data in a PostgreSQL database

I learned how to:

• Set up a basic MVC application using Express and Node.js
• Use a template engine (EJS) to create views
• Serve static assets in Express
• Deploy an application using a PaaS (Koyeb)
• Deploy and integrate a database on a hosting service (Neon)
• Set up and query using node-postgres
• Populate a database using a script

A note on timezones:

Message times will always be converted to the America/Toronto timezone when displayed. In the future, I may come back and refactor it so that it displays times based on the user's current timezone.

Acknowledgements:

Favicon from Flaticon.