A (private) webmail client that includes utilization of Node.js, Express.js, React.js v4, Redux, Mongoose (MongoDB), Passport, and Socket.io.

• Source control using Git/GitHub
• Hosted on Heroku (PaaS)
• Processes incoming emails
• Uses a MX catchall in order to parse and process inbound emails.

git clone https://github.com/sleepingstanley/stanley-webmail.git
cd stanley-webmail
npm i && npm i --prefix client

This will install all the dependencies required and will use concurrently to launch both the Node.js/Express backend server as well as the React.js frontend server

You're going to need access to a MongoDB database and some way to process incoming emails.

To process incoming emails, you need to set up some kind of inbound-email parser. I suggest trying the free service provided by SendGrid (You'll need to use this project's parse URL)

Create a file named config.local.js in the project's root directory and fill this out:

module.exports = {
  parseURL: 'incoming', // Email that SendGrid/email parser will use to parse emails. It can be accessed by the inbound parser at http://mydomain.com/api/emails/<parseURL>
  mongoURI: 'mongodb://username:password@hostname:port/dbname', // MongoDB URI for database connections
  jwtSecret: 'i like puppies' // Secret key that is used to store session information.
};

• PARSE_URL
• MONGODB_URI
• JWT_SECRET

Next, running npm run dev should auto-launch in your default browser, but if it doesn't, you can open the client manually: