FemSTEM

A web application that serves as an inclusive, supportive tech community focusing strictly on women and non-binaries. Our app offers mentorship opportunities, women-led tutorials, a hall of fame section and an opportunity of finding other female or non-binary teammates.

Demo link

https://fem-stem.herokuapp.com/

Our official Fem STEM Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/CBteqBHz3b

Features we've implemented

• Our Fem STEM homepage has a list of introductory materials and a few links to donate in organizations who are empowering young women in the tech industry.
• In the Help section, users (mentors) can create group doubt solving threads for helping other members of the community with their tech doubts.
• Tutorials section to fetch only women made tech tutorials on relevant topics.
• Opportunities section for users to add hackathon or other opportunities to help others.
• Also, a Hall of Fame section highlighting our users' achievements.
• Profile dashboard to display all details.
• UserWay plugin to make our web app more accessible to users with visual impairment or other similar issues.

How we built it

• Front-end was designed using Express, CSS3, Javascript, Jquery and Bootstrap framework.
• Back-end was supported using Node.js
• We used the Youtube Data v3 API for fetching the women made tech tutorials.
• MongoDB database is used to store the registered users and their details as well as the groups and their comments for the mentor/mentee page.
• We used bcrypt.js to hash the passwords in our database to ensure security of out users against any kind of data breach
• We used passport.js to authenticate our users
• We used UserWay plugin to make our web app more accessible to users with visual impairment or other similar issues.
• We used Canva to create our app logo as well as all the designs used on our web page.
• We used Heroku to host our web app.

How to run on your local machine?

• Please make sure that you already have Node.js installed in your system.
• Next, type: git clone https://github.com/Swatilekha-Roy/Fem-STEM on your command prompt.
• Once your repo is cloned, run npm i on yiur prompt.
• Type node app.js or npm run dev (latter suggested) on your prompt.
• The app must be running on localhost:3000 on your system.
• Open any broswer and type localhost:3000 and enjoy. :)