Event-Notifier

A Firebase cloud function to notify about events through email

Description

A Cron Job that runs once every day at 6am. It reads a shared Google Spreadsheet for any events on that particular date. If there is one, it sends an email to the receiver with details about that event.

Pre requisites

• Make sure to have an email account which supports nodemailer. (Check Article)
• Make sure you have node.js and npm already installed and clone this repository
• Save all event data in a google spreadsheet in the format [ Name | Day | Month | Event_Type ]. Example: [ Mom | 24 | 8 | Birthday ]
• Make sure you have firebase-cli installed. If not, enter the below command in your terminal to install it globally

npm install firebase-tools -g

Installation and Usage

• Create a new project on Firebase, download the credntials and rename it to client_secret.json
• Move this file inside functions/helpers directory of the project
• Enable Google sheets API on GCP console under your project
• Add the 'client_email' from the downloaded credentials to your google spreadsheet
• Change your directory to functions and enter the below command to install dependencies

npm install

Save all your credentials on firebase config environment as shown below. (Check Article)

{
  "eventnotifier": {
    "smtp_config": {
      "smtp_port": "<your_smtp_port>",
      "smtp_host": "<your_smtp_host>",
      "email_id": "<your_email_id>",
      "email_password": "<email_password>",
      "smtp_service": "<your_smtp_service_provider>",
      "receiver_email_id": "<receiver_email_id>"
    },
    "spreadsheet_uri": "<your_spreadsheet_uri>"
  }
}

Enter the below command to deploy the function

firebase deploy --only functions