Data Analysis Project

A web application built using MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) full-stack framework. This project is developed for the students and professors of the CS&E department, PES University and is developed by the members of The Alcoding Club, PES University. The web app enables student to view their ranking among other students in global competitive coding competitions, helps them build a public profile, submit course related assignments and view their submissions.

Requirements

• Node.js 6+
• MongoDB

npm install

Instructions

Production mode:

npm start

Development (Webpack dev server) mode:

npm run start:dev

Note

1. Make sure to add a config.js file in the config folder. See the config.example.js under config/ directory for more details.
2. Generate and add ssl files in the server/ directory under a folder named sslcert. To genrate certificates, navigate to the server/sslcert/ directory and execute the following command.

openssl req -x509 -out server.crt -keyout server.key \
-newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -sha256 \
-subj '/CN=localhost' -extensions EXT -config <( \
 printf "[dn]\nCN=localhost\n[req]\ndistinguished_name = dn\n[EXT]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:localhost\nkeyUsage=digitalSignature\nextendedKeyUsage=serverAuth")

This should generate two files, server.key and server.crt.

Steps to create the first user (an admin user)

1. Replace line 14 in server/routes/api/admin.js by the following

    app.post('/api/admin/signup', function (req, res) {

2. Make a POST request using any REST API client to http://localhost:8080/api/admin/signup with the body as { "usn": "admin", "firstName": "YourName" }

3. Using Mongo Compass, change the role of the created user to admin.

4. Undo changes to server/routes/api/admin.js.

5. Run the server.

6. Log in using admin credentials. ( username = "ADMIN", password = "ADMIN" )

Steps to add new users

1. Using an admin account, access localhost:8080/admin page. Upload a csv file containing new users in the format "firstName, email, usn".
2. Default password is USN (in uppercase) for all users.