You can find the deployed project at https://master.d3p8i1bf0wxm1z.amplifyapp.com/
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Niyon is an online platform that aims to connect young coders with mentors. Starting a job in a new location or new industry is extremely difficult. Niyon helps young professionals increase their confidence skills, meet colleagues in a new location and find support to help them develop the skills needed for their coding career. Niyon will be launching a pilot of its mentorship platform in West Africa and aims to reduce the unemployment rate in those countries.
- Give the ability for inexperienced professionals who seek tech mentorship in West Africa to be connected with a mentor of their choosing via different filtering fields
- Give mentors and mentees the ability to text/video chat in real time
- Give mentees a place to ask questions by way of a forum
- Site contains a newsfeed that displays relevant tech/career articles
- Site has a map to visualize users around them for potential meetups
- Performance - ReactJS its using a virtual DOM that provides superior performance
- reusable Components - React provides a component based structure. You can re-use components anywhere you need. As a result, (1) your app has consistent look and feel, (2) code re-use makes it easier to maintain and grow your codebase, and (3) it is easier to develop your app.
- is such a popular library, many modules are available, as is plenty of up-to-date information about it.
[Back end] built using: https://github.com/Lambda-School-Labs/niyon-be
- Node is a server side environment where javascript can run. Having both our client and server code with the same language is helpful to our team's communication and integration.
- Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.
- Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.
Jest Framework -Jest is a testing framework that focuses on simplicity. It was covered in the curriculum, have awesome documentation and practically covers every aspect of testing; from unit-test to snap-shot test, etc.
See Backend Documentation for details on the backend of our project.