The App Brewery - Back-end project 03 - Newsletter Signup

Udemy - Dr. Angela Yu - The Complete 2020 Web Development Bootcamp

Section 20: APIs - Application Programming Interfaces

A back-end program, that can forward the user's name and e-mail address to Mailchimp, to sign it up for your newsletter.

• Node.js
• HTML5
• CSS3

My Newsletter Signup page is not deployed anymore.

How to run: (from terminal)

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/ArpadGBondor/The_App_Brewery-Back-end_project_03-Newsletter_Signup.git

Enter directory:

cd The_App_Brewery-Back-end_project_03-Newsletter_Signup/

Download the missing dependencies from npm:

npm install

Get your own API key (sry, I won't share mine... )

Register on Mail Chimp for your own API key: https://mailchimp.com/
mailChimpUserKey: https://admin.mailchimp.com/account/api/
mailChimpListID: https://admin.mailchimp.com/lists/
mailChimpServerNumber: the last digits of your API key, eg: "us3"

Create a file named '.env' and set these enviroment variables:

MAILCHIMP_API_KEY=
MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID=
MAILCHIMP_SERVER_NUMBER=

Run program:

node app.js

Send get request from browser:

Open: http://localhost:3000