If you have often found yourself bogged down with at least a hundred tabs open across ten different windows, wishing for a way to consolidate what you need in one place without blindly searching through bookmarks, Pin It is here for you. It is a web app that helps condense the sheer number of browser tabs open on your computer by giving you the option to save articles and read them later at your leisure, especially if you find yourself without internet.
Please clone this repository to your local machine and run npm install, then the script below will run our application at localhost:8080
npm run start-dev
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Our chrome extension can be installed after cloning our repo by going to
chrome://extensions/,turn ondeveloper mode, clicking onLoad unpacked, and using ourextensionsfolder to properly pin any site you want with the click of a button. -
Pin It uses IBM Cloudant. Please install this on your local machine before running our web app!
Create a .env file with these process.env variables:
With your IDs and secrets:
- CLOUDANT_USERNAME = 'Your Cloudant Username'
- CLOUDANT_PASSWORD = 'Your Cloudant Password'
- CLOUDANT_URL = 'Your Cloudant URL'
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