NIT Arunachal Pradesh Alumni Network

A web platform connecting students, alumni, faculty and staff of NIT Arunachal Pradesh: verified profiles, an alumni directory, connections, mentorship, messaging, jobs, events, a feed, donations and administration.

Built with Next.js, PostgreSQL (Prisma), Redis, BullMQ and Better Auth, as a pnpm and Turborepo workspace.

Quick start

Requires Node.js 24+, pnpm 12+ and Docker.

pnpm install
cp .env.example .env
pnpm docker:up
pnpm db:deploy && pnpm db:seed
pnpm dev            # http://localhost:3000
pnpm worker:dev     # background jobs, in a second terminal

Layout

apps/web        Next.js app: UI, Server Actions, /api/v1, business modules
apps/worker     outbox relay and background job processors
packages/       database, job contracts, queue, email, storage, search, observability, ui, testing, scripts
deploy/         production compose stack, release and backup scripts
docker/         images and local development services
ops/            Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana config and incident runbooks
docs/           user guide, product, architecture, API, operations, decisions

Documentation

• User guide: features and roles
• Product, architecture, domain model, HTTP API
• Development: commands, tests, adding a feature, database changes
• Decisions
• Deployment and operations