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Build a Full-Stack LMS with React, Node.js, MongoDB & Stripe

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Overview

This tutorial guides you through building a full-stack Learning Management System (LMS) using MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js (MERN stack). The platform enables educators to upload course content and students to browse, purchase, and watch courses online.

Key Features

  • User Authentication: Implemented using Clerk, providing seamless sign-in, sign-up, and user profile management with ready-to-use React UI components.
  • Course Management: Educators can create courses, add chapters and lectures with video URLs, and set pricing and discounts.
  • Course Browsing & Search: Students can view course lists, filtering by keywords with a responsive search interface.
  • Course Enrollment & Payment: Integration with Stripe for secure online payments, including a test mode for easy development.
  • Course Player: Students watch course videos with features like free previews, marking lectures as complete, and progress tracking.
  • Dashboard: Separate dashboards for educators (course stats, earnings, student enrollments) and students (enrolled courses, progress).
  • Rating System: Users rate courses with interactive star ratings that update dynamically.

Technical Highlights

Frontend

  • Uses React with routing handled by React Router.
  • Styling with Tailwind CSS and Google Fonts for a modern UI.
  • Rich text editor for course descriptions implemented with Quill.js.
  • State management and context API maintain app-wide state and helper functions.
  • Authentication state and user data are synced with Clerk.

Backend

  • Express server with RESTful API endpoints for courses, users, enrollments, and educator functions.
  • MongoDB schemas/models for users, courses (including nested chapters and lectures), purchases, and progress.
  • File uploads (course thumbnails) handled with multer, stored on Cloudinary.
  • User role management enables users to become educators with specific API routes protected by middleware.
  • Stripe payment integration creates checkout sessions; webhooks validate payment success and update purchase status.

Deployment

  • Backend and frontend deployed separately on Vercel with environment variables securely managed.
  • GitHub used for version control and continuous deployment integration.

Getting Started

  1. Initialize Frontend: Create React app, install dependencies (React Router, Quill, Star Rating, Tailwind, Axios, React Toastify). See Maîtrisez React : JSX, ReactDOM et création de composants for foundational React concepts.
  2. Setup Backend: Create Express app with necessary packages (Mongoose, Cloudinary, Stripe, Clerk middleware).
  3. Implement Authentication: Integrate Clerk for user signin/signout and restrict routes.
  4. Create Models: Define MongoDB schemas for users, courses, lectures, purchases, and progress.
  5. Build APIs: Develop controller functions and routes for course management, user data, enrollment, progress, and payments.
  6. Handle Payments: Configure Stripe API keys, implement checkout sessions, and webhook handlers. For deeper insights, refer to Build and Deploy a Responsive GPT-3 Landing Page with React.js which covers payment integrations.
  7. Connect Frontend with Backend: Use Axios calls in context API to fetch and update data.
  8. Deploy: Push code to GitHub, connect repositories with Vercel for frontend and backend deployment. Get deployment best practices from Build a Modern Frontend Developer Portfolio Using Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Sentry.

User Flow

  • Students browse courses, use the search box, and view detailed course pages.
  • Users register/sign in via Clerk; profile pictures and user states update dynamically.
  • Upon purchasing courses, payment sessions are handled via Stripe, with webhooks confirming payment and updating database.
  • Students watch courses, mark lessons complete, and submit course ratings.
  • Educators manage courses via dashboards, publishing new courses, viewing enrollments, and earnings.

Conclusion

This tutorial delivers a practical, complete LMS solution leveraging popular modern technologies, focusing on user authentication, secure payments, course management, and smooth user experience. The project is finely tuned with responsive design and robust backend architecture.

Additional Resources

  • React Beginner Tutorials (recommended before starting)
  • Clerk Documentation for Authentication
  • Stripe API & Webhooks Guide
  • Tailwind CSS Setup Guide
  • MongoDB Atlas for Database Hosting

Feel free to explore, customize, and extend the LMS project for your needs.

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