victormax94 / secret_santa

Just a simple algorithm to pick secret santa coulpes

secret_santa

WHY ?

This code has the goal to pick santa secret couples. In the case of this project you can configure that there is some participants can not do gift to someone , imagine in a group there is a couple of wife and husband. The algorithm can fail because there is a black list condition . So if fails will not send the emails , and then you can execute again. Enjoy!

Run

node santa_algorithm.js

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Use nodemailer to send emails from your node js server

input array in main function Example

[
       {email:"[email protected]",name:"NAME",blackList:["[email protected]","[email protected]"]},
       {email:"[email protected]",name:"NAME",blackList:[]},
       {email:"[email protected]",name:"NAME",blackList:["[email protected]"]},
       {email:"[email protected]",name:"NAME",blackList:["[email protected]"]},
       {email:"[email protected]",name:"NAME",blackList:[]},
       {email:"[email protected]",name:"NAME",blackList:["[email protected]"]},
       {email:"[email protected]",name:"NAME",blackList:["[email protected]"]},
       {email:"[email protected]",name:"NAME",blackList:[]},
]

 {
    email:"EMAIL_PARTICIPANT",
    name:"NAME_PARTICIPANT",
    blackList:[...AN ARRAY OF PARTICIPANTS THAT CAN NOT BE A RECEVIER OF THIS PARTICIPANT]
    },

output of santaAlgorithm function in santa_algorithm.js

[{email:"EMAIL WHO S GIFT", name: "NAME WHO S GIFT"},{email:"EMAIL WHO S RECEIVE", name:"NAME WHO S RECEIVE"}]