This Project aims to connect University students to sell and buy their used items. Sellers get a convenient platform to list their items, and Buyers get books and other articles at low prices, along with a chat feature to clear any queries they may have with the product.

• ReactJs

Used this framework to build the frontend of the website as a SPA Single Page Application to procide somooth user experience.

• Mongodb Atlas

Used for maintaining database of students registering on the site as well as details of all the item listings.

• Node Js and Express framework

Used for building the backend server of the project.

• Bcrypt Library

Used in sync with Node Js to ensure that passwords are properly hashed before being placed into the Database

• Socket.io

Used to setup text Chat Application between Buyer and the seller.

• JWT

Used this Authenctication System to make sure the user is logged in before accessing any personal info on the site

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/yashjoshi-dotcom/College_Bazaar.git

Go to the project directory

  cd College_Bazaar

• Split the terminal to run both frontend and backend conviniently.

To Open frontend directory.

cd .\frontend\

To Open backend directory.

cd .\backend\

Install dependencies on both frontend and backend folder

  npm install

Start the frontend React application

  npm run start

Start the backend Server

  nodemon app.js

Please make sure you have config.env file setup in the backend directory. The Format is demostrated in config.env.example file.

This Project would not have been possible without the immense help of following people.

• @Yuvraj
• @Tanush Chaudhary
• @Yash Joshi

• Additional Sign in Options with Google and Github
• Adding Lost and FOund Item Section
• Adding Wishlist functionality