Kurakoo: A JavaScript repository from arnabiscreating

Kurakoo is a website where you can make friends (safely) and learn more from people you trust. Kurakoo is an online community of people providing answers to questions just like Quora site. Kurakoo is especially for school-college students, people from around the different colleges visit Kurakoo to ask questions from a community of people who answer them.

Project Background💡

In Majority of the Colleges and Universities across India, having so many queries from "Which branch to choose?" to "How to crack interview?". A One-Stop Solution can be to bring up an application where students can drop down their questions for public View, that can be accessed by anyone and those people knows the answer they can share their point of view.

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 the basic idea how the website will work. We will also be working on adding more features to the Project, like sharing the questions ,following people and to whom it benefits the most which would allow the other User to filter and view specific content.

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 must be kept in src->components->common folder.
Kindly keep the source code in the src->components folder while making the specific components. ] - Please make sure to adhere to the folder structure of the project.

We will also be working on adding more features to the 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 the format should be as given in .env.example in the server directory itself.

NOTE: To get the MONGO_URL, take a look at this article for reference Connection String URI Format
Install the dependencies by running
```
npm install
```
Run the server
```
npm run dev
```

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 it recommended to run the backend server too.

Open source contest

Girlscript Summer of Code 2021 About GirlScript Summer of Code is the 3 month long Open Source program during summers conducted by GirlScript Foundation, started in 2018, with an aim to help beginners get started with Open Source Development while encouraging diversity.