LegalGate.

eMarketplace for Legal Service Provider

🖥️ Tech Stack

Frontend:

I'm currently working on this project to make this fullstack. Currently, it's a Frontend repo, To know more about this project refer to this Youtube Video.

Problem Statement | Introduction

In India, it's hard for people to find and get legal help because legal professionals work independently and there's a need for a centralised platform to connect with them easily. So This project is a user-friendly, secure, and transparent functional prototype of an e-marketplace platform for Legal Service Providers and citizens of India which addresses the following challenges :

• Getting Legal Professionals on the Board
• Making Services Transparent
• Service Quality Control
• Matching Clients with the Right Professional
• Accessible to Everyone The platform will also integrate with the Bar Council association and other courts to verify the legal service providers in future.

Screens

• Registration, login and gig organize forms
• Homepage / Landing Page with sliding menu
• Gigs page with all categories
• Gig description
• Gig management
• Payments page with Stripe integration
• Message page with one-to-one chat with seller and buyer
• Single gig page
• Gig search
• Image uploading via Cloudinary, a media management

🚀 Legal Service Provider Features

• Chat with buyers
• Create new gigs and
• Only the seller's gig can be deleted
• Gigs can be reviewed by buyers based on comments and stars

🚀 User Features

• Chat with the Legal Service Provider
• Filter and sort gigs for a range of price
• My Orders Section for details of all gigs bought
• Can review gigs and give stars
• Order securely with Stripe
• Search gigs with keywords

Getting Started

This project was built using React, Redux, Sass, HTML, JavaScript, Rest API, Node JS, Express and MongoDB with JWT and Stripe integration. It is a Legal Service freelance outsourcing web application and for running on your local environment you should follow these guidelines.

Prerequisites

• NPM
• Node JS
• MongoDB

Setup

The project repository can be found in GitHub link or just clone the project using this command.

Using HTTPS

# git clone https://github.com/devmusiczz/LegalGate.git

• Open the terminal on your workspace with

cd /home/workspace/LegalGate

Install

Install NPM

Check that you have node and npm installed

To check if you have Node.js installed, run this command in your terminal:

node -v

To confirm that you have npm installed you can run this command in your terminal:

npm -v

To confirm that you have MongoDB installed you can run this command in your terminal:

mongo -v

To install all the dependencies of the project, run the following command:

cd client

npm install

cd ../

cd server

npm install

To run the application go to the client folder and run the following command:

npm run dev

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

Server

JWT_SECRET e.g. this_is_secret_123

MONGODB_URI e.g. MongoDB cluster URI

STRIPE_SECRET e.g. Secret key from the stripe dashboard

NODE_ENV e.g. 'development' for local and 'production' for production

Client

VITE_API_URL e.g. http://localhost:3000/api or production deployed server link

VITE_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY e.g. Publishable key from stripe dashboard

CLOUDINARY_ENV e.g Cloudinary environment string from your Cloudinary dashboard

CLOUDINARY_PRESET e.g. Cloudinary preset name from your Cloudinary dashboard settings -> Uploads

Tools used on this project

• Visual Studio Code
• Vite-JS template
• MongoDB Compass
• Stripe Dashboard to monitor payments

Contact

Let's connect 🤝

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