📚EduFlow – Learning Management System (LMS)

EduFlow is a full‑stack Learning Management System (LMS) designed to simulate a real‑world EdTech platform. The project focuses on clean role‑based architecture, secure authentication, structured course delivery, payment handling, progress tracking, and instructor–student workflows. It is built to demonstrate strong backend design, scalable data modeling, and production‑oriented features expected in modern SaaS applications.

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🚀 Core Features

Authentication & Authorization

• User registration and login using JWT authentication
• Role‑based access control: Student, Instructor and Admin
• Protected routes for dashboards and course management

Course & Content Management (Instructor)

• Create and manage courses
• Organize courses into modules and lessons
• Add lessons with support for:
  • Text content
  • Video links
  • PDF resources links
• Create quizzes per module (MCQ‑based)
• Mark courses as free or paid

Enrollment & Payments (Student)

• Enroll in free courses instantly
• Paid course enrollment using Razorpay

Learning Experience (Student)

• View enrolled courses and lessons
• Mark lessons as completed
• Attempt quizzes with auto‑grading
• Track quiz attempts and scores

Dashboards & Analytics

Student Dashboard

• Course completion percentage
• Quiz history and performance overview

Instructor Dashboard

• Enrolled students per course
• Quiz performance insights

Certification

• Automatic certificate generation on 100% course completion
• Downloadable PDF certificate with:
  • Student name
  • Course title
  • Completion date
  • Unique Certificate ID embedded QR code for verification

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🧠 Future Enhancements

• Lesson‑level attachments
• Video‑wise discussion forums
• Real‑time video discussion forum
• Advanced analytics and reporting
• Admin panel for platform management

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🏗️ Tech Stack

Frontend

• Vite
• React.js
• Zustand
• Tailwind CSS
• dnd-kit/react

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• JWT‑based authentication
• RESTful API architecture
• PDFkit
• qrcode

Database

• PostgreSQL
• Prisma ORM
• Well‑structured schemas for Users, Courses, Modules, Lessons, Quizzes, Enrollments, and Payments

Payments & Services

• Razorpay for payment processing (Test mode)
• Email service
• PDF generation for certificates

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🗂️ High‑Level Architecture

• Client → API → Database architecture
• Separation of concerns between routes, controllers, and models
• Secure middleware for authentication and authorization
• Scalable schema design to support future growth

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🖼️ Screenshots

Dashboard

Course Home Page (Modules)

Lessons and Quizzes

Re-order Lessons

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📦 Installation & Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/vaidikdubey/eduflow.git

# Install backend dependencies
cd ../backend
npm install

# Install frontend dependencies
cd ../frontend
npm install

Create a .env file in the backend directory:

PORT=8000
FRONTEND_URL=http://localhost:5173
DB_URL=your_db_url
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your_access_token_secret
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRY=your_access_token_expiry
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=your_refresh_token_secret
REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRY=your_refresh_token_expiry
MAILTRAP_HOST=your_mailtrap_host
MAILTRAP_PORT=your_mailtrap_port
MAILTRAP_SMTP_USER=your_mailtrap_smtp_user
MAILTRAP_SMTP_PASS=your_mailtrap_smtp_pass
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
RAZORPAY_KEY_ID=your_key_id
RAZORPAY_KEY_SECRET=your_key_secret
RAZORPAY_WEBHOOK_SECRET=your_webhook_secret

Run the application:

# Backend
npm run dev

# Frontend
npm run dev

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🎯 Project Goals

• Demonstrate end‑to‑end full‑stack development skills
• Implement real‑world LMS workflows
• Showcase secure authentication, authorization and payment integration
• Build a scalable foundation for future features

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🤝 Contributions

Contributions, suggestions, and feedback are welcome. Feel free to fork the repository and open a pull request.