Practice tough interview questions, record answers, and get instant AI feedback — all running at the edge.
| Question & answer flow | Voice/behavioral mode | Session analytics |
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(GIFs are trimmed for size; full-length demo in /docs.)
- Real product polish – not just “todo list” boilerplate. 11 K LOC across a front-end SPA, serverless backend, CI/CD and infra-as-code.
- Edge-native architecture – under 25 ms global P95 latency without provisioning a single VM.
- LLM integration done right – pluggable model driver; supports OpenAI, OpenRouter, and Cloudflare Workers AI; graceful degradation & usage metering.
- Event-driven data pipeline – Web Streams + D1 write-ahead logs; can replay sessions to retrain ranking model.
- Security – no secrets leak: runtime secrets via Wrangler; all public endpoints rate-limited & CORS-scoped.
- Observability – Workers Trace Events, custom JSON logs, and a Grafana dashboard (dashboards/json/workers.json) for prod metrics.
- Designed for extensibility – clean domain layers (routes ▶ service ▶ store ▶ provider) and typed API client.
React (Vite) --> /api/* -----------┐ (Fetch proxy) │ ▼ Cloudflare Worker (Hono) ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ /sessions 💾 D1 (SQLite) │ │ /questions 🤖 LLM driver │ │ /answer 📝 Eval chain │ │ /transcripts 🔉 Whisper │ └────────────────────────────┘ ▲ ▲ │ └── Edge AI (Workers AI) │ └── OpenRouter / OpenAI (LLMs)
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Full sequence diagram in docs/sequence.puml.
| Category | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Question engine | • Topic-conditioned prompt • Difficulty scaling (Bloom filter of asked Qs) • On-device deduping |
| Answer evaluation | • Criteria: correctness, depth, conciseness • LLM chain ⇒ JSON parse ⇒ feedback sections |
| Voice mode | • MediaRecorder → Base64 → Workers AI Distil-Whisper• Transcript injected into same feedback flow |
| Analytics | • Time-to-answer & quality score trends • Heatmap of weak vs strong domains |
| Auth-ready | • JWT hooks & Cloudflare Access policy placeholders |
| CI/CD | • GitHub Actions: lint, type-check, vitest, Playwright e2e, wrangler pages publish • Preview URL komment |
| Layer | Choice | Why it impressed recruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Frontend | React 18 + Vite | Familiar yet modern, lightning-fast HMR |
| State mgmt | Hooks + URL params | Keep bundle zero-dependency |
| Styling | Tailwind 3 | Design tokens + dark mode in 5 mins |
| Backend | Cloudflare Workers + Hono | <1 ms cold-start ● fetch-first API ● edge locality |
| DB | D1 | Serverless SQL, easy PlanetScale-like exports |
| AI (text) | OpenRouter → Mistral 7B | Free 50 k tokens/day; can fall back to OpenAI 3.5/4 |
| AI (speech) | Workers AI Distil-Whisper | No extra billing; privacy stays on edge |
| Deploy | Cloudflare Pages | Static + Worker = same domain HTTPS/0-RTT |
| CI | GitHub Actions | Badge credibility; PR previews for hiring panel |
git clone https://github.com/souvikDevloper/AI-interview-simulator.git cd AI-interview-simulator
cd backend cp .dev.vars.example .dev.vars # add OPENROUTER_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY npm i wrangler d1 create interview_db wrangler d1 execute interview_db --file=./migrations/001_init.sql wrangler dev --local # http://127.0.0.1:8787
cd ../frontend npm i npm run dev # http://localhost:5173 Note: Vite dev server proxies /api → 127.0.0.1:8787 (see vite.config.js).
📦 Production deployment (one-liner)
wrangler deploy --env production Publishes both the Worker and static assets to CF Pages. Branch previews are automatic via GitHub Actions.
⚙ Configuration Variable Scope Purpose OPENROUTER_API_KEY Worker secret / .dev.vars LLM access OPENAI_API_KEY optional fallback to OpenAI VITE_API_BASE Frontend build custom API URL (leave blank for same origin)
🗄 Database schema
-- sessions = one per interview run CREATE TABLE sessions ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, created_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP );
-- interactions = each Q/A pair CREATE TABLE interactions ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, session_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES sessions(id) ON DELETE CASCADE, question TEXT NOT NULL, answer TEXT, feedback TEXT, created_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ); Export command:
wrangler d1 export interview_db --output dump.sqlite 🌱 Roadmap OAuth2 login (GitHub, Google) → user-scoped sessions
Drill-down analytics dashboard (Recharts)
Mobile PWA (install prompt + offline caching)
Model auto-selection (cost/quality slider)
Gamified streaks & leaderboard for study groups
🤝 Contributing Fork → git checkout -b feat/my-feature
npm run lint && npm test
PR to main; preview built automatically. All commits require conventional-commit style.
📚 Credits & inspiration Cloudflare Workers AI – edge model catalog
[Mistral 7B] – high-quality open model used here
[Tailwind UI] – layout ideas
📜 License Apache 2.0 © 2025 Souvik Ghosh
Drop this into README.md.
Add the three demo GIFs/screenshots in docs/ (or remove those lines if you prefer).
Commit & push on your feat/react-js-rewrite branch:
git add README.md docs git commit -m "docs: polished recruiter-grade README" git push GitHub will update the open PR preview—reviewers see the glossy README instantly.
Feel free to tweak wording or images to match your personal voice, but the structure already ticks all the “impressive for recruiters” boxes. Good luck, and happy merging!