hreynier / job-board

Full-stack (React, Express, Material UI, CronJob, Redis) App that collects, filters and displays entry-level software jobs from various job-board APIs.

TechStart | React Job Board 🚀 👨‍💻 👩‍💻

A full-stack web app to collect and filter entry-level tech jobs from several external job sites.

Check out TechStart here, where its deployed and constantly updated with the latest jobs!

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Built with several tools, most notably:

• React
• Create React App
• Express
• Material-UI
• Node Redis
• Cron

What does this app do?

The primary motivation of this app was to streamline the job search process for graduates, students, and others seeking entry-level jobs in the tech industry. There are several job board sites out there, and I personally found it difficult to navigate between them to find suitable jobs to apply for. I hope that as I continue to develop this app and add more sources that I can help job-seekers break into the tech industry easier.

Disclaimer

• 👷 This app is a work in-progress.
• 🐛 There may be bugs, feel free to report any by adding an issue!

Setup

To get a development instance of this application up and running...

Ensure that NPM/Yarn and Node is installed on your machine.

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. Navigate to the client folder in your terminal, and run the following code:

   yarn install

3. Navigate back to the root folder, and run the following:

   npm install

4. Navigate to the worker folder and start it's script:

   node index.js

5. In another terminal instance, navigate to the api folder and also start it's script:

   node index.js

6. Now that your backend is running, open another terminal instance, and navigate to the client folder and run:

   yarn start

7. Done Your browser should open the development site at localhost:3000/ where you should see the jobs fetched through the backend.

Enjoy!

The application is also deployed and constantly updated here using the Google Cloud Platform.

Contributing

There are several features that I still want to add and any contributions are welcome!

To get started contributing...

Step 1

• Option 1

  • 🍴 Fork this repo!

• Option 2

  • 👯 Clone this repo to your local machine using https://github.com/hreynier/job-board.git

Step 2

• HACK AWAY! 🔨🔨🔨

Step 3

• 🔃 Create a new pull request using https://github.com/hreynier/job-board/compare/.

Future Goals

There are several features that I aspire to add to this application, most notably:

• Add several more external job sites
• Implement advanced filtering techniques (e.g. filters based on locations, job types, etc.)
• Add futher interaction with user accounts, saved jobs, lists etc.

The current deployed application is definetly the minimum viable product and as such these features offer several routes to expand and develop the application further. If you want to be involved in anyway, please dm me and we can discuss development!