course-forum's Introduction

Course Forum

Web app for university students to discuss courses, created as a hobby project. The idea for this project was influenced by Jodel, which lets its users send anonymous messages to threads visible to everyone.

App is currently hosted at course-forum.herokuapp.com but only a small number of courses from University of Oulu Computer Science and Engineering degree programme is included.

Functionalities

View courses

View all courses available for discussion

Threads

View and create message threads under courses.

Messaging

Browse and send messages to threads. To prevent spam, each user can send one message every 3 minutes.

Technologies

Tech stack used to create Course Forum:

Component	What was used?
Frontend	React, CSS
Backend	ExpressJS
Database	MongoDB Atlas

API endpoints

Data from these endpoints is returned as JSON objects

GET:

/api/courses
- Get all available courses in database
- Returns {id: String, name: String}
/api/courses/{course_id}
- Get threads in course specified by course_id
- Returns {id: String, name: String}
/api/courses/{course_id}/{thread_id}
- Get messages in thread specified by thread_id located in course course_id
- Also checks if user can participate in discussion and returns the result of this check in canParticipate
- Returns {topic: String, canParticipate: boolean, messages: Array}

POST:

/api/courses/{course_id}
- Start a new thread in specified course
- Body expected: {threadName: String}
/api/courses/{course_id}/{thread_id}
- Post a new message to a thread
- Body expected: {message: String}

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