ASSIST- An web application that caters to people’s mental health and psychiatric issues.

Winning Submission for MIST Inter University ICT Innovation Fest 2021 Hackathon. Through ASSIST, people are able to seek professional help from qualified psychiatrists and consultants.

Visit the Webapp Here

If you want to check out the code structure that is deployed to heroku; visit this repo

Technologies used

         

Features that ASSIST provide :

• Lookup professional psychiatrists and consultants.
• Allow users to directly communicate with professionals.
• Allow users to set up appointments for online sessions.
• Online sessions will be held within the webapp.
• Users can ask questions anonymously and professionals can answer them.
• A blog for professionals and users to share insights and experiences.
• Users can join group chats to communicate and share experiences.

The complete API documentation can be found here

How to run the project for local development

• First clone the repo and cd into the source project
• cd backend and add a .env file into the backend folder
• configure the .env file like this
• Run nodemon server to start backend server at http://localhost:8080
• Run npm run socketServer to start the socket server at http://localhost:5000
• Finally cd back into the frontend folder and run npm start
• The application will run on http://localhost:3000