TalentPalette is a platform designed to bridge the gap between professional networking and social interaction, tailored for creative professionals. It blends the formal aspects of LinkedIn with the engaging social experience of Instagram.

• Overview
• Technology Stack
• Project Structure
• Getting Started
• Contributing
• License

The platform offers a unique mix of features from job listings and gig postings to social media-like user interactions with posts and profiles, all geared towards talent discovery and professional networking in the creative field.

• MongoDB: A document-based open source database.
• Express.js: A web application framework for Node.js.
• React: A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
• Node.js: A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

The project follows a MVC-like structure divided into client and server sides:

• src/
  • components/: Contains all React components.
  • pages/: React components that represent pages.
  • App.js: The root React component that contains the main application logic.
  • index.js: The entry point that renders the React application.

• models/: Schemas for the database models.
• controllers/: Logic for handling requests for each model.
• routes/: Definitions of RESTful endpoints.
• server.js: The main entry point of the server application.

• Admin: For managing users, posts, and job listings.
• Home: Displays user lists, posts, and profiles.
• Jobs: Lists available jobs and gigs.
• UserProfile: Shows specific user profiles with posts and gigs.
• Login/Signup: Handle user authentication and registration.

To get a local copy up and running, follow these simple steps.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/your_username_/Project-Name.git
   
   

Install NPM packages

npm install

Start the server

npm run start

Start the client

cd client

npm start

Run: http://3.134.245.199

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

In the project directory, you can run:

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.
You may also see any lint errors in the console.

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can't go back!

If you aren't satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.

Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you're on your own.

You don't have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn't feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn't be useful if you couldn't customize it when you are ready for it.

You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.

To learn React, check out the React documentation.

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