Job Board Application

Overview

This is a full-featured job board application where users can search, filter, and save jobs as well as post job opportunities.

Demo video can be found here -->

Note

• The git histories can be found in their respective repos:
  • jobBoardClient
  • jobBoardServer

Features

Users

• User Authentication
• Change Username/Email/Password
• Upload Profile Picture

Job Listings

• Browse through job postings

• Filter jobs by:

  • Country
  • City
  • Experience Level (in years)
  • Employment Type (e.g., full-time, internship)

• Search jobs using the search bar

• Save jobs to view later

• Create Job Posts

Technical Details

Tests

• Unit tests for some validation functions and settings page
• Integration for user authentication

Custom Logger

• A custom-built logger to handle different levels of logging, including such as Events and Errors

Security

• Password hashing (+ use of peppers) before storing them into DB
• Rate limiting to prevent DDoS attacks and password-guessing attempts (brute force).
• Session Managemen JWT tokens stored in client-side cookies

Other

• Global Error handling to properly handle exceptions and errors
• Polling Mechanism: used when users search for jobs to efficiently retrieve relevant data without overloading the server.

Setup Instructions

• Clone the repository or download the zip file
• Install the dependencies in both folders seperately:

cd jobBoardClient
npm i

cd jobBoardServer
npm i

• Create a .env file in the jobBoardServer dir and add the following values:

SERVER_PORT: 3000
JWT_SECRET: "shhhhh"

DB_HOST: "./jobBoardDB.sqlite3"

• Go to the jobBoardClient dir and run the following command:

npm run build

• Go to the jobBoardServer dir and run the following command:

npm run server