Alternatives and detailed information of Kurakoo

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:
Tools & Technologies:
Project Management Tools:

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 the file carefully.
For each issue, a detailed explanation is mentioned in the 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

Run cd server on your CLI.

Create a .env file and paste the MONGO_URL, node environment and email for nodemailer in the given format

MONGO_URL = <your_url>
NODE_ENV = development
USER_MAIL=<Enter your mail-id from where you want to send the mails>
MAIL_PASSWORD=<password of the entered mail-id for the authentication>

For the MONGO_URL, We have added a string for the local mongoDB connection inside index.js mongodb://localhost:27017/kurakooDB

Note: See the .env.example file for further clarity

_NOTE: To get the MONGO_URL, take a look at this article for reference [Connection String URI Format](https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/connection-string/)_

Install the dependencies by running
```
npm install
```
Run the server
```
npm run server
```
Link for the screenshots, how to setup backend locally are kept in assets->backend folder.

Frontend

Run cd client on your CLI.
Install the dependencies by running
```
npm install
```
Run the server
```
npm start
```

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

Start Frontend & Backend simultaneously

Navigate to the root folder i.e. Kurakoo.git
Install the dependencies by running
```
npm install
```
Start Frontend & Backend simultaneously
```
npm run dev
```

Unit Testing

Currently we are working on the implementation of unit-tests.
This will improve the our codebase & help to manage all the wierd cases.
We are using Mocha & Chai for the unit-testing. We welcome you, for helping us to improve test casing.

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.