Civic Connect

💡 Inspiration

I was going back to my home, when I saw a huge banner stating that my city would become a SMART CITY and just beneath it was a huge mountain of garbage becz there were no garbage bins, quite an Irony.

So when I though of what will make my city smart, then ther came a lot of factors like good infrastructure, education, transport, healthcare. But the most impoertant 2 factors are the GOVERNMENT and the GENERAL PUBLIC. So though of building an idea which could connect citizens directly to the govt and help becoming a smart city faster.

💻 What it does

Through Civic Connect, citizens or general public can directly raise their issues to the government or authorities in power in their area.
People can raise ISSUES and give a detailed description of the issue like an image for proof, description, address.
Helpers would look into these issues and see if they are valid or not. If valid, they would APPROVE the issue
Who are Helpers --> Socially Active people doing good work for society or government officials
Once an issue is approved, the local government can start working on that issue and they would have to give regular updates on the issue
Once worked on, helpers may close the issue and an issue can only be closed only when there are updates on the Issue.
In this way, we can keep a check on how much work the Govt. is doing and citizens can make upmost contributions for their city and country.

⚙️ How we built it

React.js
Node.js
Express.js
MongoDB
Mongoose
Figma
Postman

Best use of MongoDB Atlas

We have used MongoDb Atlas for storing our data, these are some of the features that we have used :-

Mongoose Model :- We have created schemas for User, Helpers, Issues and Notifications.
Using Pre Hooks :- Used pre hooks in Schemas to populate data while fetching and modifying data before storing in DB.
Mongodb operators :- User operators like Push and Pull to update arrays in Database

Most creative use of Github

We collaborated and shared our code through a githib repo nad used these features :-

Regular and small commits
Raised Issues - Issues were raised for the bugs of enhancements that were found in the project throughout the hackathon
Detailed Decumentation

Domain from Godaddy

Url -> http://civiccoonect.co

🧠 Challenges we ran into

Integration of APIs
Designing and prototyping in Figma

🏅 Accomplishments that we're proud of

Since none of us have any prior major experience with designing in Figma, we overcame and built a fig ma mockup in 36 hours
Made navbar with framer motion
Completed and made fully functional prototype of project with api's .