Hack-News

Application to manage hackathons internally for a company, where users can:

• login with their employee id or register with new employee id. Format for employee id followed: 'HN' or 'hn' followed by -{any numeric value}.
• add/ create challenges.
• can see list of challenges created by others as well.
• can upvote challenges created by others.
• sort challenges based on vote count and creation time in ascending and descending order.

Tech stack used in the project

MERN stack application.

• MongoDB
• ExpressJS
• ReactJS
• NodeJS

External libraries used in UI are:

• Axios
• Ant-design
• React-router
• Concurrently

Steps to run the project in the local:

1. Clone the repository.
2. Change directory to the cloned repository folder and run npm i to install backend dependencies.
3. After installing backend dependencies, change directory to client folder.
4. Now run npm i for installing frontend dependencies.
5. After installing both frontend and backend dependencies, change directory back to where server.js file is located, that is our backend directory.
6. From this directory, run npm run dev to run both client and server concurrently without the need to run them separately in different terminals.

App loads here

You can also play with the app here