🥬 Kale

Send password-protected messages to anyone, anywhere.

Hosting Your Own Instance of Kale

1. Set up a new cluster with MongoDB Atlas. Create a database named Kale, and in it, create a collection named Messages. Take note of the Mongo URI (it should look something like mongodb+srv://USERNAME:[email protected]/?retryWrites=true&w=majority), which will be used to connect to the cluster.
2. In Network Access, whitelist your IP if you are hosting locally. If you are hosting on the cloud, Allow Access From Anywhere.
3. Create a file named .env for storing envrionment variables, and store the Mongo URI as MONGO_URI. The file should look something like this:

MONGO_URI=mongodb+srv://USERNAME:[email protected]/?retryWrites=true&w=majority

4. In the console, run npm i to install the necessary packages, and then run npm run to start Kale!

Customizing Your Instance of Kale

1. You can customize the name and icon by editing the the HTML files in the views folder. In particular, most of the necessary changes will be made in the head tag, as well as in the h1 tag in the body.
2. The colours can be customized by editing the first section of the styles.css file in the public folder:

* {
    --primary: #43a047;
    --primary-hover: #388e3c;
    --primary-focus: rgba(67, 160, 71, 0.125);
    --primary-inverse: #FFF;
}

Kale uses PicoCSS, and you can find alternative color schemes here.