Welcome to the Tech. Community App!
Developer's-Learning & collaborative platform designed for universities and colleges, focusing on knowledge sharing and community building. The platform enables student developers to connect, collaborate, and engage through sharing their tech works, knowledge and findings, all within their institution. Developers can interact, clarify doubts via discussion section. The platform includes role-based interfaces for Students, Coordinators, and Admins to manage content, moderation, and community participation.
- User Authentication –Secure registration and login with role-based access using JWT.
- Assistant_Knowledge Hub – In-post AI assistant that provides contextual explanations, related posts, videos, and suggested follow-up queries.
- DraftMate AI – Content drafting assistant to refine and structure post descriptions before publishing.
- Post Management – Create, edit, and publish technical posts within the community.
- Playlists Management – Organize and save curated collections of posts for structured learning.
- Discussions – Engage with the community through threaded discussions on posts.
- Announcements – Coordinators and admins can publish institutional or community updates.
- Notifications – Real-time alerts for recommended feeds and comments.
- Network Recommendation – A graph structured author recommendation system to build connections.
- Explore Technical Content: Browse, learn, and engage with posts across tech communities.
- Interactive Discussions: Comment on posts and join lively discussions.
- Personalized Experience: Follow favorite communities and authors, and receive tailored notifications.
- Stay Informed: Get real-time announcements about events and sessions.
- Content Creation & Management: Publish, edit, or delete technical posts.
- AI-Powered Grammar Checker: Ensure content quality using integrated AI tools.
- Event Management: Plan and schedule announcements for meetings and events.
- Platform Oversight: Manage users, roles, and permissions.
- Activity Monitoring: Verify and monitor student and coordinator activities.
- Comprehensive Control: Oversee and configure all aspects of the platform.
Frontend and Backend are deployed and scaled independently in service level (Application is loosly coupled with other micro-services outlined in the Key Features section):
Node-Blog-App/
├── backend/ # Node.js + Express + Redis + AWS -S3 + MongoDB
├── frontend/ # React.js + Tailwind CSS
├── README.md
└── ...
- Backend: Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose
- Frontend: React.js, Tailwind CSS
- Storage: AWS S3
- Caching: Redis
- Node.js v14+
- MongoDB (local or cloud)
- AWS Account (for S3 integration)
cd backend
npm install- Create a
.envfile in thebackend/directory:# Database credentials MONGODB_URI = your_mongodb_connection_string REDIS_URL = your_redis_connection_string # E-Mail credentials EMAIL_PROVIDER = providers_email_id EMAIL_PASS = providers_email_pass_key # AWS credentials AWS_BUCKET_NAME = your_bucket_name AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = your_access_key AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = your_secret_key AWS_REGION = your_aws_region # Authentication key for auth-middleware (secure client access) JWT_TOKEN_ACCESS_KEY = your_jwt_hashKey
- Start the backend server:
npm run dev
- Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.
cd frontend
npm install- Create a
.envfile in thefrontend/:# Micro-services URLs VITE_CHATBOT_URL= drafMate_assistant_url VITE_WEBSOCKET_URL = discussion.io_url VITE_TECH_ASSISTANT_URL = assistant_knowledge_hub_url VITE_RECOMMENDATION_URL = author_recommendation_surl # Local encryption key VITE_STORAGE_KEY = your_hashKey # your custome hashKey for localStroage encryption
- Start the frontend server:
npm run dev
- Open http://localhost:5173 in your browser.
Contributions are welcome!
Refere CONTRIBUTING.md
This project is licensed under the MIT License.