DevForum

Website : https://devforum-frontend.onrender.com/
Repo for project description - https://akshatpy.github.io/DevForum/

DevForum - MERN Q&A Platform

DevForum is a full-stack, community-driven Q&A platform for developers, inspired by the features of Stack Overflow and the community-based structure of Reddit. Users can ask questions, post answers, vote on content, and engage in specific topic-based communities.

Key Features

• Full MERN Stack: Built from the ground up with MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js.
• Authentication: Secure user registration and login using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and bcryptjs for password hashing. ( so that we can’t store passwords in the db !! )
• Community-Based (Subreddit Style): Users can create, join, and post questions within specific communities (e.g., r/javascript, r/python).
• Q&A Functionality:
  • Users can post questions with a title, body, and tags , and post answers to any question.
  • Users can reply to a thread , and make communities too.
• Voting & Reputation:
  • Users can upvote or downvote both questions and answers.
  • A reputation system automatically grants points to users for upvotes and accepted answers.
• User Profiles:
  • Each user has a public profile displaying their bio, reputation, and a history of their questions and answers.
  • Users can edit their own profile (bio and avatar).
• Dynamic Feed:
  • The home page features a main feed of all questions.
  • Users can sort the feed by “New,” “Top” (by votes), or “Hot” (by answer count).

Tech Stack

Backend

• Node.js: Runtime environment
• Express.js: Server framework
• MongoDB: NoSQL database
• Mongoose: Object Data Modeling (ODM) for MongoDB
• JSON Web Token (JWT): For secure authentication
• bcryptjs: For password hashing
• express-validator: For API input validation

Frontend

• React.js: UI library
• Redux Toolkit: State management
• React Router: Client-side routing
• Axios: HTTP client for API requests

Deployment

• Vercel: Configured for monorepo deployment (vercel.json included)