Dsolve-2024

Team Name

ReDiff

Team Member

Athul Anoop: https://github.com/alpha-og

Sharon P Shajan: https://github.com/sharon504

Idea

Aligned with the vision of "Create, Grow and Make a Difference," Diff fosters a collaborative ecosystem at CET, empowering students to actively participate in innovation, develop their skills, and contribute to meaningful projects. Diff provides a platform to share project ideas and to connect with collaborators and investors.

Features

Project Management for Leaders:

• Effortless Project Visibility: Publicly accessible project profiles showcase project goals, desired skillsets, and utilized technologies, attracting a wider talent pool.
• Enhanced Communication: Temporary posts and comments facilitate efficient project updates and real time vacancy/ contribution requirement updates.
• AI-powered Project Synopses: Large Language Model (LLM) summaries provide concise overviews of project objectives and progress, streamlining communication with stakeholders and project applicants.
• Streamlined Funding Acquisition: Integrated sponsorship requests connect projects with potential financial backers, ensuring project sustainability.

Empowering Project Applicants:

• Intuitive Project Discovery: Advanced search filters and personalized project suggestions leverage user profiles and project requirements, facilitating efficient project identification.
• LLM-driven Skill Development: AI-powered recommendations suggest personalized roadmaps, guiding applicants on the skills needed for successful project contributions.
• Efficient Applicant Onboarding: A streamlined process allows applicants to submit profiles and relevant documents during signup or application, ensuring ease of participation and providing project-specific information directly to owners.
• Direct Communication Channel: A secure direct messaging feature enables seamless communication between applicants and project owners, fostering collaboration.

Link to product walkthrough

Diff-Demo.mp4

Libraries used

API: Gemini API Server:

• "@google/generative-ai": "^0.5.0",
• "axios": "^1.6.8",
• "bcrypt": "^5.1.1",
• "cookie-parser": "^1.4.6",
• "cors": "^2.8.5",
• "dotenv": "^16.4.5",
• "express": "^4.19.2",
• "jsonwebtoken": "^9.0.2",
• "mongoose": "^8.2.4",
• "nodejs": "^0.0.0",
• "nodemon": "^3.1.0"

Client

• "axios": "^1.6.8",
• "lucide-react": "^0.364.0",
• "react": "^18.2.0",
• "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
• "react-router-dom": "^6.22.3"
• "autoprefixer": "^10.4.19",
• "postcss": "^8.4.38",
• "tailwindcss": "^3.4.3",
• "vite": "^5.2.0

How to configure

• Clone the repository or download the project files.
• Open a terminal and navigate to the project's root directory.
• Open the run.sh file in a text editor and replace the following placeholders with your actual values: . <Your_JWT_Secret>: Replace with a secret key for JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication. . <Your_MongoDB_URI>: Replace with the connection URI for your MongoDB instance. . <Your_Gemini_API>: Replace with your Gemini API key for enabling LLM features

How to Run

• Make the run.sh script executable by running the following command: chmod +x run.sh
• To start the frontend and backend servers, run the following command from the project's root directory ./run.sh
• Once both servers are running, you should see the following output in your terminal:

  Starting backend server...
  > backend@1.0.0 dev
  > nodemon server.js
  
  [nodemon] 2.0.20
  [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
  [nodemon] watching path(s): *.*
  [nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
  [nodemon] starting `node server.js`
  Server is running on port 2000
  
  Starting frontend server...
  > frontend@0.1.0 dev
  > vite
  
    vite v4.3.5 dev server running at:
  
    > Local: http://localhost:5173/
    > Network: use `--host` to expose
  
    ready in 88ms.
  
  Both frontend and backend servers are running.
  Press Ctrl+C to stop.
  
  

• You can now access the frontend application at http://localhost:3000 and the backend API at http://localhost:2000
• To stop the running servers, simply press Ctrl+C in the terminal where the run.sh script is running. The script will automatically stop both the frontend and backend processes.

How to contribute ?

Pending Feature Implementations:

• Enhanced Communication: Temporary posts and comments facilitate efficient project updates and real time vacancy/ contribution requirement updates.
• Streamlined Funding Acquisition: Integrated sponsorship requests connect projects with potential financial backers, ensuring project sustainability.
• LLM-driven Skill Development: AI-powered recommendations suggest personalized roadmaps, guiding applicants on the skills needed for successful project contributions.
• Efficient Applicant Onboarding: A streamlined process allows applicants to submit profiles and relevant documents during signup or application, ensuring ease of participation and providing project-specific information directly to owners.
• Direct Communication Channel: A secure direct messaging feature enables seamless communication between applicants and project owners, fostering collaboration.