Full-stack MERN event management app with OTP auth, student & institution dashboards, and email onboarding — deployed via Vercel & Render.

🎉 EventInn — Full-Stack MERN Campus Event Platform

EventInn is a full-stack event management platform where institutions can post events and students can register for them — built with MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js, and styled with TailwindCSS.

Includes: JWT Auth, OTP verification, Email onboarding, Role-based Dashboards, Protected Routes, and Deployment on Vercel + Render.

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🚀 Features

• 👥 Two user roles: Students & Institutions

• 🔐 Secure Auth: JWT-based login & protected routes

• 🔄 OTP Verification during registration

• 📩 Welcome Emails sent on signup

• 🧑‍🏫 Institutions can:

  • Register/Login
  • Post Events
  • View number of enrolled students

• 🎓 Students can:

  • Register/Login
  • Enroll into events
  • View their enrolled events

• 🌍 Fully deployed on Render (API) + Vercel (Client)

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: React.js, TailwindCSS
• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MongoDB (Mongoose ODM)
• Auth: JWT, OTP, bcrypt
• Email: Nodemailer via SMTP (Gmail)
• Deploy: Vercel (frontend), Render (backend)

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📦 Installation

1. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/anshu2k24/EventInn.git
cd EventInn

2. Setup Backend

cd backend
npm install

Create a .env file in /backend with the following:

MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string
PORT=5000
JWT_SECRET=your_secret_key
SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_USER=your_gmail_email
SMTP_PASS=your_gmail_app_password

Run the backend:

node server.js

3. Setup Frontend

cd ../frontend
npm install
npm run dev

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🔑 Demo Credentials (optional)

If you're testing without email/OTP setup:

• Institution:

  • Email: inst@example.com
  • Password: ******

• Student:

  • Email: stud@example.com
  • Password: ******

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🌐 Live Demo

🔗 https://eventinn.vercel.app

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📸 Screenshots

🏠 Home Page

🎓 Login/Register

📩 Student Welcome Email

🧑🏻‍🎓 Student Dashboard

🏫 Institution Dashboard - add event

🏫 Institution Dashboard - hosted event

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🤝 Contributions

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, open an issue first to discuss what you'd like to change.

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🧠 What I Learned

• Role-based user management
• Email + OTP verification flow
• JWT tokens for secure auth
• MongoDB modeling with Mongoose
• Route protection & middleware
• Full deployment via Vercel & Render

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