🕯 Welcome to Scholars' Haven! 🕯

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Welcome to Scholars' Haven, a dynamic scholarly platform powered by Permit.io for role-based access control and MongoDB for flexible data management.

🕯️ Project Description

Scholars' Haven is designed to facilitate seamless collaboration and knowledge sharing among students, professors, and researchers. It provides a secure environment where users can manage scholarly papers, provide feedback, and ensure compliance with dynamic access controls.

🛡️ Usage of Permit.io

Scholars' Haven utilizes Permit.io for fine-grained access control based on roles and actions. Each user role (student, professor, researcher) has specific permissions:

• Student: Can upload research papers and view their own submissions.
• Professor: Can perfom actions similar to that of students and additionally, review student papers, provides feedback, and manages submissions.
• Researcher: Perform all actions as above and additionally explores published papers, reports inappropriate content, and moderates submissions.
• Admin: Mangaes the whole dashboard
• Moderator: Manages the community of scholars in the join community forum [ on hold for now ]

Permit.io ensures that access rights are dynamically adjusted based on real-time policies, enhancing security and compliance.

🗝️ Features

Student 🎓

• Upload Paper: Upload research papers for review.
• View Uploads: Access and manage their own uploaded papers.

Professor 👨‍🏫

• Upload Paper: Upload research papers for review.
• View Uploads: Access and manage their own uploaded papers.
• Review Papers: Evaluate student submissions and provide feedback.
• Manage Submissions: Monitor and manage all student papers.

Researcher 🔬

• Upload Paper: Upload research papers for review.
• View Uploads: Access and manage their own uploaded papers.
• Review Papers: Evaluate student submissions and provide feedback.
• Manage Submissions: Monitor and manage all student papers.
• Explore Papers: Browse and search through published papers.
• Flag Content: Report inappropriate content and manage moderation.

Screen shots (dashboard)

Checkout the demo here: https://youtu.be/kvuBSblGXJ4

🛠️ Technologies Used

• Frontend: Next.js and React for responsive UI/UX.
• Backend: Node.js.
• Database: MongoDB for scalable data storage.
• Authorization: Permit.io for dynamic access control.
• Authentication: Firebase Authentication for secure user login.

📜 Installation

To run Scholars' Haven locally, follow these steps:

Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/scholars-haven.git
   cd scholars-haven

Install dependencies:

npm install

Set up environment variables:

Create a .env file in the root directory.

Add the following environment variables:

PERMIT_API_KEY=your_permit_api_key
FIREBASE_API_KEY=your_firebase_api_key
FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=your_firebase_auth_domain
FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=your_firebase_project_id
MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_uri

Start the development server:

npm run dev

Access the application:

Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000.

🖋️ Thank you!