MAIL BOX

A web application which fetches mails using the Gmail API.

To run this application you will need the following prerequisites

• Node js - Here is an installation guide
• A Google Cloud Platform project with the API enabled. To create a project and enable an API, refer to Create a project and enable the API Note that for this apllication, you should enable the Gmail API
• A Google account with Gmail enabled

Set Up

1. Download and exract the zip file or clone this repo
2. In the file javascript/keys.js replace <YOUR_CLIENT_ID> with the client ID you created.
3. Also replace <YOUR_API_KEY> with the API key you created.

Run

1. Navigate to the directory Mail-Box in the downloaded code.
2. Install node modules npm install
3. Start the application node app.js
4. Navigate to http://localhost:8887/mail-box in your browswer

Features supported

1. Fetch mails sorted by date
2. Fetch inbox, unread, and sent mails
3. Send mails with plain text content

Demo of set up and working

Video

References

• Quickstart JS