brainlet/README.md

# Brainlet
Brainlet is a simple chat app. Each category has a text channel associated with it, all messages sent in the text channel are temporary, while in the category itself all posts are permanent.


As its database, it uses Mongo DB.
## Self-hosting
So you wanna host Brainlet yourself, huh?

Firstly, you're gonna need a MongoDB server, I just use Docker for the Mongo server, but you can *try* to not use Docker, though Mongo does not want to standalone on anything outside a perfect debian system or windows, so just use Docker. (if you are on windows, simply install mongo normally, it should work nicely)

Let create a Docker container for Mongo!
```
docker run -it -v mongodata:/data/db -p 27017:27017 --name mongodb -d mongo
```
This should automatically run it, however, next time you need it you gotta run:
```
docker start mongodb
```
Stopping it is as simple as:
```
docker stop mongodb
```

Now that we have a Mongo server set up, let's actually begin to set up the Brainlet server.

***NOTE***: You need nodejs and npm installed in order to proceed! I recommend using node 12.x, but anything above that will probably work.


Once you have installed node, clone the repo and then cd into it.
Then, run the following command:
```
npm i
```
This will install all of the node modules.

***OPTIONAL***: You may want to edit secret.js and have jwtPrivateKey set to a randomly generated key, such as with /dev/urandom. This will allow session cookies to persist after server reboot.

If you don't set one yourself, a private key will be randomly generated each time the server starts.


***NOTE***: You can edit config.js to tweak some of the settings. You might wanna do that, especially if you are planning to run it on a domain. (setting the address variable)


### You should now be ready to go!
Just run Brainlet with the command below:
```
node index.js
```

Afterwards, try going [here](http://localhost:3005/auth.html) to visit the site.

Good luck!