🎓 Smart Student Assistant Web App

A full-stack MERN web app that helps students manage notes, reminders, and schedules — and chat with an AI study assistant.

📖 Overview

Smart Student Assistant is designed to centralize student productivity tools:

• 📝 Create and organize notes
• ⏰ Set reminders for tasks or deadlines
• 💬 Chat with an AI-powered assistant for study help
• 📅 View schedules and progress on a clean dashboard

🧱 Monorepo Layout

student-assistant/
├── backend/ # Express, MongoDB, JWT auth
│ ├── server.js
│ ├── config/
│ │ └── db.js
│ ├── models/
│ │ └── .gitkeep
│ ├── routes/
│ │ └── index.js
│ └── controllers/
│ └── .gitkeep
└── frontend/ # React app
└── src/
├── App.js
├── components/
│ └── .gitkeep
├── pages/
│ └── .gitkeep
└── context/
└── .gitkeep

⚙️ Getting Started

🧩 Prerequisites

• Node.js v18+
• MongoDB (local or Atlas)

🖥️ Backend Setup (Express)

cd backend
npm install

Run the backend:

npm run dev

💻 Frontend Setup (React + Vite)
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

app will start at http://localhost:5173

🧠 Tech Stack

Frontend:

⚛️ React
– UI library for building interactive components

⚡ Vite
– Lightning-fast build tool and dev server

🎨 Tailwind CSS
– Utility-first CSS framework for styling

🔀 React Router DOM
– Handles page navigation

📊 Recharts
– Data visualization for charts and graphs

Backend:

🟢 Node.js
– JavaScript runtime for backend

🚀 Express.js
– Minimalist web framework for APIs

🗄️ MongoDB
– NoSQL database for storing app data

🔐 JWT
– JSON Web Tokens for authentication

⚙️ dotenv
– Environment variable management

Dev Tools:

🧩 Nodemon
– Automatically restarts the server on changes

💻 Postman
– For testing API routes

🧠 OpenAI API
(optional) – For chatbot or AI features

🧾 Notes

The backend exposes a /health endpoint for quick checks.

Add models, controllers, and routes incrementally for:
users
notes
reminders
chat proxy

🪪 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License
.

✨ What’s new / improved:

• Added Markdown styling (emojis, dividers, code blocks).
• Clearer overview and project purpose.
• Consistent setup instructions (with code blocks).
• A space for screenshots and license — optional but makes it feel “complete.”