📚 StudyNotion - Full Stack EdTech Platform

StudyNotion is a fully-featured EdTech platform built using the MERN stack with robust authentication, payment integration, and role-based dashboards for instructors and students. This project demonstrates full-stack proficiency, scalability, and modern web development best practices.

🚀 Features

• 🔐 User Authentication & Authorization

  • Sign-up / Login
  • JWT-based protected routes
  • Role-based access (Admin, Instructor, Student)

• 🧑‍🏫 Instructor Dashboard

  • Course creation & management
  • Upload videos, write course content
  • Track student enrollments

• 🎓 Student Dashboard

  • Browse, purchase & access courses
  • Course progress tracking
  • Interactive video playback

• 💳 Razorpay Payment Integration

  • Secure checkout process
  • Order and transaction management

• 📝 Rich Text Support

  • Description editors for course content

• 🌗 Dark & Light Mode

  • Full theme toggling support

• 📧 Email Services

  • Send confirmation, reset password emails via nodemailer

🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend	Backend	Database	Others
React.js	Node.js	MongoDB	JWT, Razorpay, Tailwind CSS
Redux Toolkit	Express.js	Mongoose	Nodemailer, Cloudinary

⚙️ Installation Steps

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Sam786eer/StudyNotion.git
   cd StudyNotion

Install frontend dependencies

bash Copy Edit cd client npm install Install backend dependencies

bash Copy Edit cd ../server npm install Create .env file in server/ and add:

env Copy Edit MONGODB_URL=your_mongo_uri JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret RAZORPAY_KEY=your_key RAZORPAY_SECRET=your_secret CLOUDINARY_NAME=your_name CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_key CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_secret Start the app

bash Copy Edit

In client/

npm start

In server/

npm run dev 📂 Project Structure bash Copy Edit StudyNotion/ │ ├── client/ # Frontend React App │ ├── components/ │ └── pages/ │ ├── server/ # Backend Express API │ ├── controllers/ │ ├── routes/ │ └── models/ 📈 Status ✅ StudyNotion is under active development. All major features are implemented. Future enhancements may include quizzes, certificates, and community discussions.

🙋‍♂️ Author Mohammad Sameer GitHub LinkedIn

📄 License This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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