(Backend) University Dashboard Management

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📋 Table of Contents

1. ✨ Introduction
2. ⚙️ Tech Stack
3. 🔋 Features
4. 🤸 Quick Start
5. 🔗 Assets
6. 🚀 More

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✨ Introduction

A high-performance PERN stack (PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) academic hub. This multi-role system (Admin, Teacher, Student) utilizes a decoupled architecture where an Express/Node.js backend serves a modular React frontend powered by Refine. By leveraging PostgreSQL (Neon) with Drizzle ORM, it ensures type-safe data integrity for class management, automated scheduling, and real-time analytics. Secure access is managed via Better-Auth, providing a robust, controlled-access environment for campus operations.

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⚙️ Tech Stack

Frontend Stack

• React is a declarative, component-based JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It allows for the creation of complex, interactive UIs through reusable components, providing the core frontend experience for the academic hub.

• Refine is a React-based framework for building data-intensive applications like admin panels and dashboards. It provides a headless approach that handles core logic—such as authentication, routing, and data fetching—allowing developers to focus on the UI and business logic.

• shadcn/ui is a collection of re-usable components built using Radix UI and Tailwind CSS. It allows developers to build high-quality, accessible design systems by providing beautifully designed components that can be copied and pasted directly into applications.

• Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces. It provides low-level utility classes that let you build completely custom designs without ever leaving your HTML, ensuring highly maintainable and responsive styling.

• TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds static typing, providing better tooling, code quality, and error detection for developers. It is ideal for building large-scale applications and enhances the development experience.

• Zod is a TypeScript-first schema declaration and validation library. It is used to define data structures and validate them at runtime, ensuring type safety and reducing bugs by providing a single source of truth for both static types and data validation.

Backend Stack

• Arcjet is a security-first tool that helps developers protect their applications with just a few lines of code. It provides security primitives for rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and sensitive data masking, ensuring the application remains secure and resilient.

• Better Auth is a framework-agnostic authentication and authorization library for TypeScript. It provides built-in support for email and password authentication, social sign-on (Google, GitHub, Apple, and more), and multi-factor authentication, simplifying user authentication and account management.

• Cloudinary is an end-to-end image and video management solution. It automates the upload, storage, manipulation, and delivery of media assets, ensuring optimized performance and a seamless visual experience across any device.

• Drizzle ORM is a lightweight and performant TypeScript ORM designed with developer experience in mind. It provides a seamless interface between application code and database operations while maintaining high performance and reliability.

• Express.js is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications. It facilitates the rapid development of RESTful APIs and serves as the standard server framework for the Node.js ecosystem.

• Neon is a fully managed, serverless PostgreSQL database platform. It offers features like instant provisioning, autoscaling, and database branching, enabling developers to build scalable applications without managing infrastructure.

• Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. It is designed to build scalable network applications and serves as the foundation for the project's backend logic.

Dev Tools

• CodeRabbit is an AI-powered code review platform that provides automated, contextual feedback on pull requests. It helps developers improve code quality and catch potential bugs early by integrating directly into the development workflow.

• Site24x7 is a comprehensive monitoring solution that provides deep insights into application performance and infrastructure health. It allows for real-time tracking of uptime, end-user experience, and server metrics to ensure maximum availability.

🔋 Features

👉 Multi-Role Authentication: A secure entry system powered by Better Auth and Arcjet that dynamically routes Students, Teachers, and Admins to protected dashboards with strict role-based permissions.

👉 Unified Analytics Dashboard: A high-level overview of the institution's health, featuring real-time statistics on student enrollment, active classes, and faculty distribution via Refine's data providers.

👉 Intelligent Subject Management: Centralized control for curriculum where you can create subjects, apply instant filters, and drill down into specific class assignments and teacher workloads.

👉 Departmental Governance: A structural management layer that organizes subjects and faculties into departments, providing detailed views of every student and educator within a specific academic branch.

👉 Dynamic Faculty Directory: A robust, paginated directory of all professors featuring advanced search by name or email, profile image hosting via Cloudinary, and full teaching schedule visibility.

👉 Advanced Class Orchestration: The core engine of the app built with Drizzle ORM, allowing Admins to schedule sessions, set capacity limits, and manage complex assignments of multiple teachers across different sections.

👉 Code-Based Enrollment System: A "Google Classroom" inspired workflow where students gain instant access to courses by entering a unique 6-8 digit joining code, ensuring a secure and controlled-access environment.

And many more, including code architecture and reusability.

🤸 Quick Start

Follow these steps to set up the project locally on your machine.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following installed on your machine:

• Git
• Node.js
• npm (Node Package Manager)

Cloning the Repository

git clone https://github.com/JavaScript-Mastery-Pro/classroom-backend.git
cd classroom-backend

Installation

Install the project dependencies using npm:

npm install

Set Up Environment Variables

Create a new file named .env in the root of your project and add the following content:

# Database
DATABASE_URL=''

# Arcjet
ARCJET_KEY=
ARCJET_ENV=development

# Application
FRONTEND_URL="http://localhost:5173"

# Better Auth
BETTER_AUTH_SECRET=

Replace the placeholder values with your real credentials. You can get these by signing up at: Arcjet, Neon, Better-Auth.

Running the Project

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:8000 in your browser to view the project.

🔗 Assets

Assets and snippets used in the project can be found in the video kit.

🚀 More

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