✨ Tech Ears - From Developers to Developers

Tech Ears is an open-source project designed by developers for developers, aimed at enhancing English language skills and providing practice for technical questions and interviews. Our platform offers a collaborative environment where developers can improve their communication skills while preparing for the challenges of technical interviews.

What can you do?

• You can practice every day, without any fee.
• Learn by listening real context developers routines.
• Share your progress.

How can I help building Tech Ears?

• Code Contributions: Improve the platform by adding new features, fixing bugs, or enhancing existing functionality.
• Content Creation: Develop new exercises, questions, and scenarios to enrich the learning experience.
• Feedback and Suggestions: Share your ideas and feedback to help us continuously improve Tech Ears.

Main Stacks

• Node.js:A free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
• Yarn: Yarn is a package manager that doubles down as project manager.
• Next Js: The React Framework for the Web

How to run:

• Clone this repository:

  git clone https://github.com/arthcc/tech-ears

• Install NVM in order to easily run the recommended Node version for this project:

  nvm install v20
  nvm use

Now go to cd tech-ears and run yarn install

After that you can go to: http://localhost:3000 so you can run locally.

• If you want to generate audios too, you need an API KEY, you can get one here: Eleven Labs API
• Or a Google Cloud API Key

Running with Docker

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/arthcc/tech-ears

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd tech-ears

3. Build the Docker containers:

   docker compose build

4. Start the Docker containers:

   docker compose up

5. To stop the Docker containers:

   docker compose down

These steps will build the Docker image once and then allow you to start and stop the containers quickly for development.

🧑‍💻 Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. Just create a pull request with your suggestions and changes.

In addition to writing code, there are many ways for you to contribue.

You can contribute as following:

• Create Issues
• Giving your Feedback

You can read this repository’s Contributing Guidelines to learn how to contribute.