the-sam-mit / edu_connect

EduConnect

EduConnect is platform designed for students to get their questions answered with an interactive one to one session with a tutor. A student has not only facility to ask doubts but also to answer others doubts too.

Features

• Post image of Question
• Create Room for Question
• Interact with others via-
  • Whiteboard
  • Text Chat
  • Video Chat

Tech

EduConenct uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Express - fast node.js network app framework
• [npm] - npm is the package manager for the Node JavaScript platform.
• MongoDB - the most popular database for modern apps, and MongoDB Atlas.
• Twitter Bootstrap - great UI boilerplate for modern web apps
• mongoose - It provides a straight-forward, schema-based solution to model your application data.
• passport.js - passport. js is a middleware used to authenticate requests in your node applications.
• simple-peer - Simple one-to-one WebRTC video/voice and data channels.
• [socket.io] - It is a library that enables real-time, bidirectional and event-based communication between the browser and the server.
• jQuery - duh

And of course EduConnect itself is open source with a public repository EduConnect on GitHub.

Installation

EduConnect requires Node.js to run. Npm gets installed along with node.js.

Version requirement

Node.js - v10.19.0 Npm - v6.13.4 (if node.js comes with lower npm version please upgrade npm to this) Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

$ cd EduConnect
$ npm install
$ node app.js

Site is hosted on http://localhost:3000

Plugins

MongoDb Atlas GitHub

Development

Want to contribute? Great!

Open your favorite Terminal and run these commands.

First Tab:

$ node app.js

Second Tab:

$ mongod

Free Software, Hell Yeah!