Glassdoor Prototype

Abstract

Glassdoor Prototype is a clone of real Glassdoor web application where current and former employees add reviews/photos of companies. It also allows us to create job alerts by asking interesting industry to its users. The application has three entities,

The application has the following features,

• Backend

  • Each backend route is secured using PassportJS meaning no unauthorized user can access it
  • Kafka is used to improve performance under a large number of concurrent user requests
  • To reduce the time taken by each request to be served is reduced using Redis
  • Some of the APIs use server-side pagination to decrease Frontend rendering load
  • To store the passwords of users securely MySQL is used and to retrieve all other information quickly MongoDB is used

• Frontend

  • The frontend heavily uses components in ReactJS to increase the reusability
  • Job/Company search is shown using Pagination so that the user does not get overwhelmed
  • A simple and user-friendly UI is developed in HTML and CSS
  • Admin dashboard is loaded with informative graphs (Bar, Wordcloud, etc.)
  • Modals are used to remove excessive back and forth to do a single task

Technology Stack

Backend

• NodeJS
• PassportJS
• Kafka
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Redis

References

• https://nodejs.org/en/
• https://reactjs.org
• https://recharts.org/en-US/
• https://nivo.rocks
• http://www.passportjs.org
• https://www.mongodb.com
• https://www.mysql.com
• https://redis.io
• https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/