🧠 BrainBoard – Your Second Brain App

BrainBoard is a full-stack Second Brain App built using the MERN stack (TypeScript), designed to help you centralize and organize content from multiple platforms like YouTube, Twitter, Google Docs, and even PDFs — all in one place.

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⚙️ Features

• 📥 Add content from YouTube, Twitter, Google Docs, or custom links
• 📄 Upload PDFs using Cloudinary + Multer
• 🖼️ Auto-fetch YouTube thumbnails for video links
• 🧠 Organize content with dynamic tags and types
• 🔗 One-click redirect to original sources
• 🔐 User authentication with JWT
• 📤 Share your brain (collection) with others via a unique share link
• ❌ Secure delete functionality for personal cleanup

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🧪 Tech Stack

🧩 Frontend

• React + TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• Headless UI
• Lucide Icons
• Vite

🧠 Backend

• Node.js + Express (TypeScript)
• MongoDB with Mongoose
• Multer for file upload
• Cloudinary for PDF storage
• Cookies for authentication

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🚀 How to Run Locally

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Sanjana023/brain-board-app.git
   cd brain-board-app
   

2. Install dependencies

       npm install
   

3. Environment Variables

• Make sure to create .env files for both backend and frontend with appropriate keys such as:

  🗂️Backend .env

      PORT=5000
      MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_uri
      JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
      CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name
      CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_api_key
      CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_api_secret
      FRONTEND_BASE_URL=http://localhost:5173

  🗂️Frontend .env

      VITE_API_BASE_URL=http://localhost:5000/api/v1
      VITE_CLOUDINARY_PRESET=brain-pdf
      VITE_CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name

4. Start the backend server

    cd backend
    npm run dev
   

5. Start the frontend server

    cd frontend
    npm run dev
   

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📸 Screenshots

Initial Loader	Signup Page

Signin Page	Dashboard View

Add Content Modal (for links)	Add Content Modal (for PDFs)

ShareBrain Modal	Shared Brain Page

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Feel free to contact 👇

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjana-dutta-499710291/

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