PeerPrep is a web application that helps students better prepare themselves for technical interviews. It provides a collaborative interview preparation platform and peer matching system, where students can find peers to practice whiteboard-style interview questions together.

Visit the deployed website here.

The deployed website is discontinued due to a paywall. To use this application, please setup the project in the development environment according to the instructions below.

• Install Node.js and NPM. We prefer using a Node Version Manager, you can follow the instructions here to install for Mac or Windows. The version of Node that we are using is 16.
• Install Docker, for Mac or Windows
• Install MongoDB
• Install Redis

1. Using Docker Compose

1. Clone the repo
2. Navigate to Dockerfile in the frontend directory
3. Uncomment "REACT_APP_ENV=DEV"
4. Run the following command

docker compose -f docker-compose-all.yaml up --build

The above command will build and run the docker containers. You can then access the website at http://localhost

2. Running each services locally

1. Clone the repo
2. cd into each directories and follow the instructions on the README of each services: Frontend, User Service, Matching Service, Collaboration Service, Question Service, Communication Service, History Service
3. Then, you can access the website at http://localhost:3000

For example:

    cd frontend
    npm install
    npm start