BeWatu - Your AI-Powered Professional Network

This repository contains the source code for BeWatu, an AI-first professional network built with React and powered by the Gemini API. All user, job, and network data is dynamically generated by Gemini on first load.

View your app in AI Studio: https://ai.studio/apps/drive/1B8zy2-aCM2fOfblfZcKzTYXdxzmhOUKu

Run Locally

Prerequisites: Node.js (v18 or later recommended)

1. Install dependencies:

   npm install
   

2. Set up your environment variables: Create a file named .env.local in the root of the project and add your Gemini API key:

   GEMINI_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
   

   You can get a key from Google AI Studio.

3. Run the development server:

   npm run dev
   

The application will be available at http://localhost:3000.

Secret scanning (pre-push)

npm install automatically points git at .githooks/ (core.hooksPath), so every git push runs a local gitleaks scan against .gitleaks.toml before anything leaves your machine — the same scan CI runs, just earlier. Install the CLI once: brew install gitleaks (or see the gitleaks install docs for other platforms). A real finding blocks the push; a false positive should be added to .gitleaks.toml's [allowlist] with a comment, not skipped with --no-verify.