Coursera Clone

Fully responsive single page application made using MERN Stack! 💙

TECH USED

• React
• Node
• Mongo db
• Express
• Redux
• Redis
• Jest

DATABASE USED

• Mongo
• Redis

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Getting Started

Clone the repo to your local environment, you have to seperately install all the dependencies for backend and frontend.

For Backend, go to the backend folder (cd Backend) and run npm i

• Install MongoDB

• or, you can use the website

• add your environmental variables

• Create a .env file in the root directory of the backend folder and add your tokens there with respect to the config files variables.

  • ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "some secret"
  • ACCESS_TOKEN_LIFE = time
  • REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET = "some secret"
  • REFRESH_TOKEN_LIFE = time
  • SENDGRID_KEY = ""
  • MONGO_DATABASE = ""
  • OAuth2Client = ""
  • STRIPE_SECRET_TOKEN = ""
  • REDIS_HOST = ""
  • REDIS_PASSWORD = ""
  • REDIS_PORT = ""

Note: Make sure the .env files variables matches with that of the config files like the image below.

For Frontend, go to the frontend folder (cd Front-end) and run npm i

To run a development environment, you can use the npm start command. This will start up a development web server on port 3000 for frontend, and a nodemon-watched API server on port 8080.

Note: you have to do npm start for backend and frontend seperately.

Unit testing

You can test the backend, express endpoints using command ( npm test )

Docker Compose

Coursera Clone is dockerised and docker hub repository can be found here https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/ayushverma/coursera/general

If you use Docker and Docker Compose, you can start the entire project with:

docker-compose up

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🏭 Features

Student

• Authentication system with signup,login,otp verification,resend otp,forgot password (fully validated with bootstrap alerts)
• Google authentication (Oauth2) using react-google-login and google auth-library
• Stripe Payment gateway integrated with backend to buy courses
• Redux store to easily manage states
• Homepage with courses being fetched categorically
• Recommended Courses based on user's preferences
• Rating of Courses
• Bookmarked Courses where users can remove or add bookmark
• Download resourses (pdf - notes)
• Responsive React Video player for videos
• Progress bar
• CoursePage with all the content of the course
• Searching based on course and teacher
• Real Time Live Group classes

Teacher

• Proper Authentication system with signup,login,otp verification,resend otp,forgot password (fully validated with bootstrap alerts)
• Fully validated teacher uploading form with descriptition,title,Image and other details
• CkEditor for writing in textbox with abilities to add diffrent headings,paragraphs,bold,italics,link,tables,sizes etc
• Teacher can upload upto 5 videos with upload bar to show progress
• Teacher can see their uploaded courses
• Teacher can delete their course
• Teacher can edit their course

Testing using jest and supertest for express endpoints.

Real Time Live Group Classes using socket.io and Optimized with redis for caching messages

Screenshots

Authentication pages

Signup Page

Login Page

Otp and Resend Otp Page

Forgot Password Page

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Main Screens

Homepage

Course Page

Bookmark Page

Payment Checkout Page

Live Classes Page

Preference Page

Teacher's Courses

Teacher Uploading Details

Teacher Uploading Videos

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Responsive Designs

Mobile Design Authentication

Mobile Design CoursePage