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CourseHub
Team Lead & Full-Stack · Mar – May 2025
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Overview
At a glance
Full-stack educational hub where students discover courses, share resources, and lean on AI plus YouTube metadata for study plans. I led idea selection, design, and implementation across the App Router surface and data layer.
Best Class Project
Next.js 14MongoDBNextAuthGemini API✚
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Features
- Course discovery/search with AI-generated descriptions, topics, study plans, and resources.
- Community posts with comments, likes/unlikes, and owner-controlled deletion.
- YouTube enrichment with duration, views, channel, and thumbnail metadata.
- Responsive surfaces for search, sidebar, resources, forum, and contribution flows.
- Shared visual language across route-driven UX.
Implementation
- Built Next.js route handlers and server-side workflows for course/community operations.
- Modeled Course/Post/User relationships using Mongoose schemas, references, and index strategy.
- Added model fallback and quota-aware error messaging for external API dependence.
- Built reusable feature components and modularized frontend behavior for maintainability.
- Applied consistent Tailwind token usage for cohesive typography/color/layout patterns.
- Coordinated team workflow with Kanban structure and regular checkpoints.
Challenges
- First major web app project, so architecture decisions were made while still learning core web patterns.
- API route files grew heavy and less modular over time.
- Security and reliability practices were immature in early implementation phases.
- Last-mile stabilization was stressful (including pre-presentation runtime panic moments).
Reflection
- My first serious web app project, and wow what a ride.
- I literally pulled an all-nighter before presentation to polish UI, overslept, then got emergency calls because teammates couldn’t run the project.
- I didn’t fully know what I was doing architecturally at first, but I worked hard to keep team process structured and communication clear.
- I got one of my favorite compliments from teammates about being their most organized leader in a class project context.
- Looking back, I can clearly see security/robustness gaps that showed up again in later projects too—important lesson.
Video
CourseHub walkthrough (Loom)