LinkedX

LinkedX is a social platform for professional networking and job seeking made with MERN Stack. Some of it's key features are:

• User Roles: Two users roles are created - Freelancer (Job Seekers) and Producer (Job Provider)
• Authentication: JWT Token based Authentication is implemented.
• Routes Protection: Routes are secured based on different user types.
• Dashboard: Separate for both user types. For producers, allows CRUD, applicants managment. For Freelancers, allows apply operations and view access.
• Post Detail View: Visible to only the creater of the post. Allows editing and changes.
• Profile Detail View: Users can create/customize their profiles.
• Connection: Users can connect with one another.
• Chat Utility: Realtime Chat facility between Connected Users.

Video Demonstration

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Frontend

Technologies used

• ReactJS: React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript.
• Material UI is an open-source React component library that implements Google's Material Design
• React Router Dom is used to build single-page applications i.e. applications that have many pages or components but the page is never refreshed instead the content is dynamically fetched based on the URL.

Installation

• First ensure you have NodeJS installed in your computer. If not, you can get here).
• Clone The Repository on your local machine:

  $ git clone https://github.com/sajji18/social-media-app.git

• Dependencies

  1. Install all the npm packages. Go into the project folder and type the following command to install all npm packages

         $ npm install

  2. In order to run the application, Type the following command

         $ npm run dev

• Run It

  You can now access the file api service on your browser by using

      http://localhost:5173/
  

Backend

Technologies Used

• Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment.
• Express.js is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.
• MongoDB MongoDB is a source-available, cross-platform, document-oriented database program.
• Socket.io Allows Bidirectional and low-latency communication across Platforms.

Installation

• First ensure you have NodeJS installed in your computer. If not, you can get here).
• Clone The Backend-Repository on your local machine:

  $ git clone https://github.com/sajji18/social-media-app.git

• Dependencies

  1. First change the current directory to the root directory which consists of the index.js

         $ cd backend/

  2. Install all the npm packages. Go into the project folder and type the following command to install all npm packages

         $ npm install

  3. Set up .env file according to the .env.example (Enter a Jwt_secret, port on which server will run, Your mongodb-url and node_env = development)

• Run It

  You can start the backend server using the following command on localhost:3000 -

      $ node index.js