MeetCode

Description

MeetCode is a fun open-source project that serves as an alternative to LeetCode. It is built using Next.js with Tailwind CSS for the frontend and Prisma as the ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) tool. The project utilizes PostgreSQL as its database, which is hosted on Supabase. The application is deployed on Vercel.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing
• License

Installation

To run MeetCode locally on your machine, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/DebasishBarai/meetcode.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd meetcode

3. Install the dependencies:

   npm install

4. Environment Variables

   To run this project, you will need to create .env file in your root dirctory

   Duplicate .env.example to .env

   Use openssl rand -base64 32 to generate a key and add it under NEXTAUTH_SECRET which is a string in the .env file

   NEXTAUTH_URL which is the base url of your project. In development, it is to be kept as http://localhost:3000

   DATABASE_URL which is the postgresql database url

5. Set up the database connection from scratch:

   • Delete the prisma folder in the root directory and also delete the prisma.ts file in the lib folder. You are going to set up prisma yourself.

   • Create a PostgreSQL database. Recommended to use a dockerize postgress image for creating database.

   • Run

     docker run --rm -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust postgres

     to set up the initial postgres database server

   • Initialize prisma with command

     npx prisma init

   • Now, you may notice that a prisma schema file schema.prisma is created in the prisma folder. Copy and paste the schema.prisma file data from the github repo.

   • Modify the .env file with DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres@localhost:5432/postgres?schema=public"

   • Run prisma database migrations

     npx prisma migrate dev --name init

   • Create the seed file seed.ts in the prisma folder. Copy and paste the seed.ts file data from the github repo.

   • Make sure you have the prisma seed script in the package.json file.

     "prisma": {
       "seed": "ts-node --compiler-options {\"module\":\"CommonJS\"} prisma/seed.ts"
      },

   • Make sure you have the ts-node installed in the devDependencies section in package.json file.

   • Run the command to seed the database

     npx prisma db seed

   • Now, you create a new file prisma.ts in the lib folder. Copy and paste the prisma.ts file data from the github repo.

6. Start the development server:

   npm run dev

7. Access MeetCode by visiting http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Usage

Once you have MeetCode up and running, you can visit the website URL provided here to start using the application. It provides a LeetCode-like experience, allowing you to solve coding problems, practice algorithms, and enhance your programming skills.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community to improve MeetCode. To contribute, please follow these guidelines:

1. Fork the repository.

2. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix.

3. Make your changes and commit them with descriptive messages.

4. Push your branch to your forked repository.

5. Submit a pull request to the main repository.

License

MeetCode is licensed under the MIT License.