Enlace: hub de comunidades e eventos para integração estudantil no IFPI – Campus Picos

Abstract

This paper presents Enlace, a web platform that centralizes information about student communities and campus events at IFPI – Campus Picos. It tackles the practical issue reported by students—difficulty staying informed due to fragmented channels—by offering a single place to discover communities, view details and join them, as well as to browse events with search, filters and RSVP. Requirements were elicited from academic literature and a local field survey with over 50 responses, which shaped the user flows and priorities. The system followed a structured software engineering process with specification and modeling (use cases and an entity– relationship diagram) and was implemented with a layered architecture: Next.js with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS on the front-end; NestJS with Prisma and PostgreSQL (Neon) on the back-end; cloud deployment on Vercel and Render with CI/CD. The API was validated through a Postman test suite covering authentication, communities, events and authorization paths. The result is a functional application that reduces friction between information and participation, supporting student integration and sense of belonging on campus.