[Interview.io]🎓🧑‍💻

The project "AI-Powered Real-Time Interview Coach" is an innovative virtual platform designed to help users improve their interview skills through a range of interactive and AI-driven features.

🌟 Features

• 💻 Simulated Interview Environment : The platform provides a real-time or peer-to-peer interview experience, allowing users to practice in a lifelike scenario using their webcam and microphone. This helps users develop time management skills and offers a flexible and convenient.

• 🤔 Quiz Section: The quiz system generates dynamic questions based on the user's inputs, covering any domain. The adaptive difficulty feature adjusts the complexity of questions in real-time, making it suitable for users at different experience levels.

• ❓ AI-Based Q&A Section: In this section, users receive AI-Based real-time, context-specific interview questions based on their skill level. The AI adjusts the difficulty based on the quality of the user’s responses, ensuring a personalized learning experience.

• 🤵 User Profile: Each user has a profile that tracks personal information, professional background, core skills, and the number of completed or upcoming interviews. This helps users stay organized and prepared for their interviews.

• 🚀 Future Enhancements: Planned future improvements include a real-time AI generated insights, enhanced quiz security, video call functionality that supports more participants, and better integration between the overview page and upcoming interviews.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: Vite ReactJs ⚛️, Tailwind CSS 🎨, Tailwind 🔄, SCSS 🎭
• Backend: Node.js 🟢, Express 🚂
• Database: MongoDB 🍃
• AI Integration: Google Gemini API , Open AI API🧠
• Socket.io - For the chat and video calling functionalities 💬
• Speech to text: WebSpeech API🧠

🚀 Getting Started Locally

Project Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/piyush0213/IIITUNA

Frontend Setup

1. Navigate to frontend

   cd frontend

2. Install dependencies:

   npm i

3. Google OAuth Client ID Setup

   • Go to Google Cloud Console.
   • Navigate to APIs & Services → Credentials.
   • Click Create Credentials → OAuth Client ID.
   • Application type: Web Application
   • Authorized JavaScript origins:
     • http://localhost:5173 (for local development)
     • Any other frontend URI you use
   • Redirect URIs: Not needed for this setup
   • Click Create and copy the Client ID.

4. Set up environment variables:

   Create a .env file in the frontend directory and add your required environment variables according to this format:

      VITE_API_URL='<your-backend-api-url>'
      VITE_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID='<your-google-oauth-client-id>'

   Format also present in the frontend folder in the file .env.example.frontend
   

5. Start the development frontend server:

   npm run dev

Backend Setup

1. Navigate to backend(In Another Terminal)

   cd backend

2. Install dependencies:

   npm i

3. Set up environment variables: Create a .env file in the backend directory and add your required environment variables according to this format:

   JWT_SECRET=<your-preferred-jwt-secret-key>
   MONGODB_URI=<your-mongodb-connection-string>
   MONGODB_URI1=<optional>
   GEMINI_API_KEY=<your-gemini-api-key>
   CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=
   CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=
   CLOUDINARY_NAME=
   NODE_ENV=development
   PORT=3000

   Format also present in the backend folder in the file .env.example.backend
   

4. Start the server:

   npm run dev

Running Frontend + Backend Together

To run both frontend and backend simultaneously:

1. Make sure you have installed dependencies for both:

   npm run install-all
   

2. Start both servers together:
   npm run dev

3. Access the app: Backend → http://localhost:3000

   Frontend → http://localhost:5173

⚡ Extra Notes:

npm run install-all → Installs dependencies for both frontend and backend in one go.

npm run dev → Starts both frontend and backend together using concurrently.

🌐 API Endpoints

• POST /api/v1/auth/signup: User registration
• POST /api/v1/auth/login: User login
• POST /api/v1/auth/logout: User logout
• POST /api/v1/auth/editUser: Edit user information
• POST /api/v1/auth/google: Google Login and Signup
• GET /api/v1/auth/getAuth: Get user authentication status
• POST /api/v1/auth/updateAvatar: Update user avatar
• POST /api/v1/rooms/addroom/:roomID: Add a new room
• POST /api/v1/rooms/deleteroom/:roomID: Delete a room
• GET /api/v1/rooms/getroom/:roomID: Get room information
• POST /api/v1/quiz/generate-id: Generate a quiz ID
• POST /api/v1/quiz/generate-quiz: Generate a quiz
• POST /api/v1/quiz/save-answer: Save a quiz answer
• POST /api/v1/quiz/evaluate-answer: Evaluate a quiz answer
• POST /api/v1/quiz/terminate-quiz: Terminate a quiz session
• POST /api/v1/questions/generate-questions: Generate questions for a quiz
• POST /api/v1/questions/chat: Interact with AI chatbot

😎 Members of our Team Diamond 👥

• Piyush Prajapati - @piyush0213
• Lakshya Chauhan - @lakshya-8000cr
• Parth Sharma - @parth-476
• Jashan Kumar - @Jk-6900cr

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to this project! Please feel free to submit issues, fork the repository and send pull requests!

🙏 Acknowledgements

• Gemini for providing the AI API
• MongoDB for the database solution

Have a great job cracking journey with [Interview.io]! 🎓✨