helpME is an interactive social help network, where user can select category based on their preferences, post a question, answer, create group and events, personalize profile, contact volunteers from our community and quickly connect through chat anytime to get the help.

• Meghal
• Umang Patel
• Jesson Ziegler

• Built using React, Node, Express and MongoDB.
• Google authentication used for login.
• JWT(JSON WEB TOKEN) and bcrypt used for authentication and authorization.
• Draft.js used for posting question and answer using WYSIWYG.
• redux used for State Management.
• Socket.io used for chat feature with websockets.
• Material UI for pre-made components.
• Styled with Material UI overrides and CSS/SCSS.

Install dependencies with npm install

Setup database using MongoDB Atlas.

Copy the .env.example file and fill in the necessary configuration.

PORT = your port
MONGODB_URL = your MongoDB URL
JWT_SECRET = your secret key

Running the server normally

npm start

Install dependencies with npm install

Running Webpack Development client by npm start

• Node
• NPM
• axios
• bcryptjs
• cors
• dotenv
• express
• express-async-handler
• google-auth-library
• helmet
• jsonwebtoken
• mongoose
• socket.io
• moment
• mui
• dompurify
• draft-js
• sass
• react
• react-dom
• react-draft-wysiwyg
• react-google-login
• react-redux
• react-router-dom
• react-scripts
• react-scroll-to-bottom
• redux-thunk
• socket.io-client