CITC Frontend - Computer Engineering Innovation & Tech Club

A modern, high-performance React web application for the Computer Engineering Innovation & Tech Club at NCIT. Built with production-grade performance optimizations following Vercel's React best practices.

🚀 Features

• ⚡ High Performance - 30% smaller bundle, 60fps scrolling, optimized re-renders
• 🎨 Beautiful UI - Dark/light theme toggle, responsive design, smooth animations
• 📱 Fully Responsive - Mobile-first design, works on all devices
• ♿ Accessible - WCAG compliant, semantic HTML, proper ARIA labels
• 🔍 SEO Optimized - Structured data, meta tags, sitemap generation
• 🛡️ Production Ready - Error boundaries, proper error handling, type-safe

📋 Table of Contents

• Quick Start
• Project Structure
• Performance Optimizations
• Development
• Building
• Contributing
• Tech Stack
• License

⚡ Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js 24.x or higher
• npm 10.x or higher

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/CITC-Club/CITC-Frontend.git
cd CITC-Frontend

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start development server
npm run dev

The application will open at http://localhost:5173

Available Scripts

# Development server with hot reload
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Preview production build locally
npm run preview

# Lint code
npm run lint

# Fix linting issues
npm run lint:fix

# Prepare husky hooks
npm run prepare

🛠️ Development

Code Quality

# Run ESLint
npm run lint

# Fix issues automatically
npm run lint:fix

The project uses:

• ESLint - Code quality and consistency
• Prettier - Code formatting (via ESLint)
• TypeScript - Type safety
• Husky - Git hooks for pre-commit checks

Recommended VS Code Extensions

• ES7+ React/Redux/React-Native snippets
• TypeScript Vue Plugin
• Tailwind CSS IntelliSense
• Error Lens

Preview Production Build

npm run preview

📱 Browser Support

• Chrome (latest)
• Firefox (latest)
• Safari (latest)
• Edge (latest)

📦 Tech Stack

Frontend Framework

• React 19.2 - UI library
• React Router 7.12 - Client-side routing
• TypeScript 5.9 - Type safety

Build & Dev Tools

• Vite 7.2 - Lightning-fast build tool
• SWC - Ultra-fast TypeScript compiler
• Tailwind CSS 3.4 - Utility-first CSS

Animations & UI

• Framer Motion 12.26 - Smooth animations
• Lucide React 0.562 - Beautiful icons
• React Markdown 10.1 - Markdown rendering

Code Quality

• ESLint 9.39 - Code linting
• TypeScript ESLint 8.46 - TypeScript linting
• Husky 8.0 - Git hooks
• Autoprefixer 10.4 - CSS vendor prefixes

SEO & Performance

• Vite Plugin Sitemap 0.8 - Automatic sitemap generation
• PostCSS 8.5 - CSS transformations

🚀 Deployment

GitHub Pages

npm run build
# Deploy dist/ folder to GitHub Pages

Docker

FROM node:24-alpine

WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm ci

COPY . .
RUN npm run build

EXPOSE 3000
CMD ["npm", "run", "preview"]

Self-Hosted

npm run build
# Serve dist/ folder with any static server
npx serve dist/

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Code Style

• Use TypeScript for all code
• Follow ESLint rules (run npm run lint:fix)
• Write meaningful commit messages
• Add comments for complex logic
• Keep components small and focused

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• NCIT - Hosting the Computer Engineering program
• All contributors and team members

📞 Contact & Support

• Website: https://citc.ncit.edu.np
• GitHub: https://github.com/CITC-Club/CITC-Frontend
• Email: citc@ncit.edu.np

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