🚗 CarConnect: A Marketplace for Cars 🚀

Welcome to CarConnect, the ultimate marketplace for buying and selling cars! This full-stack application is designed with performance, scalability, and user engagement in mind. It leverages a modern tech stack to deliver an intuitive, responsive, and secure user experience.

📈 Key Features

• 🎨 Responsive UI with React & Tailwind CSS: Built a clean and modern user interface using React and Tailwind CSS, ensuring an optimized user experience across all devices.

• 🔐 Secure Authentication with Clerk: Integrated Clerk for robust user authentication, providing seamless access control and keeping user data safe.

• 💬 Real-time Messaging with Sendbird: Enabled real-time communication between buyers and sellers using Sendbird, fostering user interaction within the marketplace.

• 🗄️ Efficient Data Management with Drizzle ORM: Simplified database interactions using Drizzle ORM, improving performance and data handling capabilities.

• 🛠️ Component Library with ShadCN: Utilized ShadCN to craft reusable and scalable components for a seamless user interface experience.

• 🔧 API Integration with Acernity: Integrated Acernity APIs for advanced data processing and enhancing marketplace functionality.

• 📊 Mock Data with Faker.dev: Used Faker.dev for generating realistic mock data, making the development and testing process smoother.

• 🚀 Deployment on Vercel: Deployed the application to production with Netlify for fast, reliable, and scalable hosting.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS ⚛️
• Authentication: Clerk 🔑
• Real-time Messaging: Sendbird 💬
• Database ORM: Drizzle ORM 🗄️
• Component Library: ShadCN 🛠️
• Mock Data: Faker.dev 📊
• APIs: Acernity 🌐
• Deployment: Netlify 🚀

🚀 Live Demo

Check out the live version of CarConnect here: CarConnect on Netlify

📥 Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/utsavpatel562/CarConnect.git
   
   

Install dependencies:

cd CarConnect

Create a .env.local file in the root directory of the project.

VITE_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY= Your_API_key
VITE_DRIZZLE_DATABASE_URL= Your_API_key
VITE_FIREBASE_API_KEY= Your_API_key
VITE_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN= Your_API_key
VITE_FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID= Your_API_key
VITE_FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET= Your_API_key
VITE_FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID= Your_API_key
VITE_FIREBASE_APP_ID= Your_API_key
VITE_FIREBASE_MEASUREMENT_ID= Your_API_key
VITE_SENDBIRD_APP_ID= Your_API_key
VITE_SENDBIRD_API_TOKEN= Your_API_key

Configure Drizzle ORM in drizzle.config.js

export default {
    schema: "./configs/schema.js",
    dialect: 'postgresql',
    dbCredentials: {
      url: "YOUR_DRIZZLE_ORM_KEY_HERE",
    }
  };

Run the app:

npm run dev

🧑‍💻 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find a bug or want to add new features, feel free to submit an issue or a pull request. 🎉

🛡️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Made with ❤️ by Utsav Patel