🐻 Bearmentor

Brilliant mentoring

🚧 This app is still in early and active development

The open mentoring platform for people and organization. Open source, free to use, with premium options. 🐻 Bearmentor is a place for tech and creating professionals to mentor each others.

Check out:

Web: https://bearmentor.com
Repo: https://github.com/bearmentor
Progress: https://github.com/orgs/bearmentor/projects/2

Concept

men·tor·ship (noun): the guidance provided by a mentor, especially an experienced person in a company or educational institution.

A true mentorship should enable to teach, guide, and share that can be for long term growth.

🐻 Bearmentor allow to:

Discover people, respective mentors and mentees
Link social profiles, portfolios, projects, products for credibility
Explore various learning programs or services by the mentors
Filter out for serious commitment through initial discussion
Set custom mentorship experience and achievable goals
Get paid to mentor people with self-compensation rate, public or private
Prefer between live/sync or recorded/async communication
Long term tracking for mentor-mentee relation

Read more about the features

Getting Started

Read the Remix Docs to understand about Remix.
If new, focus on Remix basics, don't use the Stacks yet. Read Super Simple Start to Remix.
If experienced, use various integration such as Prisma ORM and database like MySQL. Read Blog Tutorial (short) and App Tutorial (long).

Tech Stack

TypeScript: Typed language
- Related to JavaScript, HTML, CSS
React: UI library
Remix: Web framework
- React Router
Tailwind CSS: Styling
Radix UI: Interactive components
- shadcn UI: Styled interactive components
- Tabler Icons: Icon set
Prisma: Database ORM
PlanetScale: MySQL-compatible serverless database platform
- MySQL: Database management system
Vercel: App deployment

Setup

Environment Variables

Create the .env file from the example .env file.

cp -i .env.example .env

This .env file is only for local development, not production

Let's configure the required environment variables in the .env file if local, otherwise in the project settings, for:

DATABASE_URL
SESSION_SECRET

Create a PlanetScale account to have a MySQL instance for development. After the database has been created, "Get the connection string" and select "Prisma", then copy the full DATABASE_URL.

Keep in mind the free plan only allow for 1 database. So either later keep it, delete it when unused, or upgrade the plan.

Generate a random string for the SESSION_SECRET using openssl rand -base64 32 on the terminal or put any long random text.

DATABASE_URL="mysql://username:password@aws.connect.psdb.cloud/bearmentor?sslaccept=strict"
SESSION_SECRET="random_secret_text"

Code Editor

When using VS Code, there are several recommended extensions that can be installed to improve the workflow. It's nice to accept the recommendations that listed in .vscode/extensions.json.

Especially (in alphabetical order):

ESLint
Inline Fold for CSS
Markdown All in One
Prettier
Prisma
Remix Forge
Stylelint
Tailwind CSS

Development

Dependencies

Use pnpm to improve productivity and replace npm, so make sure pnpm is installed:

npm i -g pnpm

To run the app locally, make sure the project's local dependencies are installed:

pnpm install

Code

Format, lint, and build to check if the setup is fine:

pnpm check
# run: format lint stylelint build typecheck

pnpm check:fix # to fix most cases if there's an issue
# run: format:fix lint:fix stylelint:fix

Note: Ignore non-critical warning about ESLint and TypeScript

Database

Prisma ORM is used to communicate with the database easily. Since this app is primarily using PlanetScale, the migration files are not needed. Therefore, push the schema directly there, then the migration will be handled through the deploy requests.

Also read:

If prefer using Docker and Docker Compose for local development, follow this guide.

Schema to Push

Sync between Prisma schema and the database directly, by making schema changes with prisma db push, which can be done regularly while updating the models:

pnpm db:push
# prisma db push

Even with local development without PlanetScale, this is still okay when prototyping the schema. After a success push, then it will automatically run prisma generate.

Data for Credentials

Create [users-credentials.json] in app/data folder with the format below. You can focus on certain users who want to be able to sign in in development, so it doesn't have to be everyone. For example, only create for admin, test, or yourname which also available in app/data/users.ts

[
  {
    "username": "username",
    "email": "user1@example.com",
    "password": "set_the_password_1"
  },
  {
    "username": "username2",
    "email": "user2@example.com",
    "password": "set_the_password_2"
  }
  // ...
]

Data for Seed

Then seed the initial data when needed:

pnpm db:seed
# prisma db seed

Check if the data is fine:

pnpm db:check
# tsx prisma/check.ts

Build

Check if the build is fine:

pnpm build
# remix build

This will also run prisma generate too before the build

Develop Locally

If everything works fine, start the Remix development server like so:

pnpm dev
# remix dev

Open up http://localhost:3000 and it should be ready to go!

The vercel dev command provided by Vercel CLI can also be used when necessary.

Regularly, either push or generate the schema when changing the database fields.

pnpm db:push
# prisma db push

pnpm db:gen
# prisma generate

Checking Dependencies

To keep the dependencies fresh, use taze.

pnpm dlx taze

Deployment

This repo has been setup to autodeploy to Vercel automatically on Git push. Can also be deployed to other new projects on Vercel.

After having run the create-remix command and selected "Vercel" as a deployment target, import the Git repository into Vercel.

Cnfigure the required environment variables in project settings for:

DATABASE_URL
SESSION_SECRET

Then deploy it. There should be the deployed URL like https://bearmentor.vercel.app.

References

Related

🐱 Catamyst ⭐
🦌 Antelapp ⭐

Mentoring Platforms

Learning Management System (LMS)

Online Courses

Business Platforms

Gumroad
Lemon

Work Platforms

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