Kurakoo is a website where you can make friends (safely) and learn more from people you trust. It is an online community of people providing answers to questions, just like 'Quora'. Kurakoo is specially catered to meet the needs of school/college students. Students from different colleges/universities around the world visit Kurakoo to ask questions to a community of people who are always ready to answer them.

Project Background💡

In the majority of the colleges and universities across India, thousands of students have many doubts and queries from "Which branch to choose?" to "How to crack interviews?". Kurakoo is a one-stop solution for all these problems. It serves as a platform where students can drop in their questions for public view and any person from this vibrant community can help by providing answers to these questions.

Areas of Collaboration 👨‍🏭

Project Managers, Developers and Designers would be collaborating on various domains like:

• UI Prototyping with figma tool figma design.

• Front-End Development with ReactJS

• Developing Backend APIs with NodeJS and MongoDB

• Working on a NoSQL Database Management System

• Working on a User-Experience rich platform for a Social Cause

This would be an enriching experience for all Student Developers, Project Managers and Designers.

Technology Stack 🛠️

• Coding Languages: Javascript (MERN Stack)

• Tools & Technologies: React, MongoDB, Express, NodeJS

• Project Management Tools: Trello, Git/Github, Markdown (Documentation)

Flow of the site 💻

Below is a basic idea as to how the website works. We will also be working on adding more features to this project, like sharing of questions, an option to follow people, a feature that allows users to filter and view specific content, etc.

General Guidelines 🎯

• Before working on any issue, kindly go through the instructions given in the contributing and readme file carefully.

• For each issue, a detailed explanation is mentioned in issue ticket itself, for more details refer to figma design.

• While making any component, make sure that the code for the all generalised/common components is kept in src->components->common folder.

• Kindly keep the source code in the src->components folder while making specific components.

• Please make sure to adhere to the folder structure of the project.

We will also be working on adding more features to this project.

Setup Guidelines

Clone the repository -

git clone https://github.com/purnima143/Kurakoo.git

Backend

1. Run cd server on your CLI.

2. Create a .env file and paste the MONGO_URL in the given format

   MONGO_URL = <your_url>
   

   NOTE: To get the MONGO_URL, take a look at this article for reference Connection String URI Format

3. Install the dependencies by running

   npm install
   

4. Run the server

   npm run server
   

   Link for the screenshots, how to setup backend locally are kept in assets->backend folder.

Frontend

1. Run cd client on your CLI.

2. Install the dependencies by running

   npm install
   

3. Run the server

   npm start
   

NOTE: To run the Frontend side of the application it recommended to run the backend server too.

Start Frontend & Backend simultaneously

1. Navigate to the root folder i.e. Kurakoo.git

2. Install the dependencies by running

   npm install
   

3. Start Frontend & Backend simultaneously

   npm run dev
   

Open source contest

Girlscript Summer of Code 2021: The GirlScript Summer of Code is a 3 month long Open Source program conducted every summer by the GirlScript Foundation. It was started in 2018 to help beginners to get started with Open Source Development while encouraging diversity.

Learning Resources 🧰

• Figma for Developers

• Git Documentation

• GitHub Guides

• How to think in react

• React Documentation

• React Routing Video

• Top 5 Skills you must read before working with react

• Complete Intro to React, v5

• Intermediate React

• Introduction to MongoDB

• API Design in Node.js (using Express & Mongo)

License📜

MIT License

Project Admin 📆

Purnima Sharma

Project Mentors 👨‍💻

Ahmed Mawia

Ishu Raj

Vivekkumar Javiya

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!