NOVA - YouTube study notes generator

Description:

Nova web application utilises youtube transcriptions and gpt 3.5 turbo to generate study notes corresponding to the user specified YouTube video.

Study notes follow a cornell structure comprising of,

1. Structured note
2. Cue questions (to improve recall to information)
3. Summary

Purpose:

Generating study notes for solo and self learners from thier favourite YouTube sources.

Dependencies

Frontend

runtime	developement
axios	tailwind
html-react-parser	prettier
react-dom	cypress
react-router-dom	eslint
react-hot-toast	vite
react-icons
react-spinners

Backend

runtime	developement
bcrypt	nodemon
cors
dotenv
express
express-async-handler
jsonwebtoken
mongoose
node-fetch
nodemailer
youtube-transcript

Pre-requisites and installation

• MongoDB Atlas connection string

• GPT 3.5 turbo API key

• NodeJS 16.x or above

• Google app password for enabling email

  
  

1. clone the repo to your local development environment
   git clone https://github.com/lasanseniya/nova-web-app.git

2. Install the packages in both frontend and backend via,
   npm install

3. create .env files containing the following info,

   Frontend:

   VITE_API_KEY - gpt 3.5 turbo api key
   VITE_SERVER_URL - server url
   

   
   

   Backend:

   PORT - port number
   CONNECTION_STRING - mongoDB atlas connection string
   ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET - an access token secret
   FRONTEND_URL - frontend url
   EMAIL_FROM - email address
   EMAIL_PASSWORD - google app password from above email
   

4. start the dev backend server and frontend via,
   npm run dev

Tech Stack

Screenshots

User Login and #

OTP send & verification

Password reset

Study note generation

Note storage

Contributors

@lasanseniya

@savindisilva

@ranidhiperera

@chamathmunasinghe

@kusalpathirage