Co-Re MERN Work In Progress

January 2021 Share

Source Demo

Course-Review is a MongoDB-Express-React-Node (MERN¹) web application that aims to serve as a platform for college students to post structured yet personal reviews of courses they’ve taken, and view reviews posted by other students.

Functionality

Login & Registration :

• Able to register and login via email, cached in localStorage as JSON web tokens using Redux authentication

Search :

• Integrated with Algolia’s InstantSearch API

Markdown Support :

• Recognizes and displays markdown-formatted text supplied as form input

To Do

Login & Registration :

• Email validation
• Social media registration and login

User Interface / User Experience :

• Improve look and feel of website
• Include alert text notifying users of markdown support

Bugs :

• Several bugs relating to asynchronous API requests logic

Code

Course Review Schema:

const mongoose = require("mongoose");

const Schema = mongoose.Schema;

const coursereviewSchema = new Schema(
  {
    university: { type: String, required: true },
    subject: { type: String, required: true },
    code: { type: String, required: true },
    name: { type: String, required: true },
    semester: { type: String, required: true },
    professor: { type: String, required: true },
    rating: { type: Number, required: true },
    author: { type: String, required: true },
    authorId: { type: String, required: true },
    general: { type: String, required: true },
    tldr: { type: String, required: true },
    workloadrating: { type: Number, required: true },
    examsrating: { type: Number, required: true },
    syllabus: String,
    textbook: { type: String, required: true },
    grading: String,
    workload: String,
    lectures: String,
    assignments: String,
    exams: String,
  },
  {
    timestamps: true,
  }
);

const CourseReview = mongoose.model("CourseReview", coursereviewSchema);

module.exports = CourseReview;

Demo

Home page of Co-Re. Here, you can see overview of courses, and search instantly for any course. The search function allows for fuzzy matching².

This is an example page of a course review. Markdown text formatting is supported.