StayAwake 🟢

Keep your free-tier hosted sites (Render, Railway, Glitch...) from sleeping.

Users sign up, add their site URLs with a custom ping interval, and StayAwake pings them forever — even when the browser is closed.

Tech Stack

• Frontend — HTML, CSS, Vanilla JS
• Backend — Node.js + Express
• Database — NeonDB (PostgreSQL)
• Scheduler — node-cron

Features

• ✅ Email & password authentication (JWT)
• ✅ Add multiple sites per account
• ✅ Custom ping interval per site (in minutes)
• ✅ Pause / resume / delete sites
• ✅ Last pinged timestamp shown on dashboard
• ✅ Pings run on server — browser can be closed

Folder Structure

StayAwake/
├── backend/
│   ├── config/db.js
│   ├── controllers/authController.js
│   ├── controllers/siteController.js
│   ├── middleware/auth.js
│   ├── routes/authRoutes.js
│   ├── routes/siteRoutes.js
│   ├── scheduler/pinger.js
│   └── index.js
├── frontend/
│   ├── css/style.css
│   ├── js/auth.js
│   ├── js/dashboard.js
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── login.html
│   ├── register.html
│   └── dashboard.html
└── README.md

Setup

1. Clone the repo
2. cd backend && npm install
3. Create .env from .env.example
4. Run node index.js