Collov Interview Project

This is a kanban clone for the Collov Software Engineering Test.

Technologies Used

git clone git@github.com:raywhui/collov-kanban-project.git

cd collov-kanban-project
npm install

Spin up your mongoDB database instance and add the database URI to the .env file. If you prefer to use a premade, cloud mongoDB instance, use mongodb://heroku_5m1lf8wv:lqfa282u36e5e8ctlvr2dlost5@ds163377.mlab.com:63377/heroku_5m1lf8wv as your URI.

# .env
MONGODB_URI=<mongodb-uri>

# OR
MONGODB_URI=mongodb://heroku_5m1lf8wv:lqfa282u36e5e8ctlvr2dlost5@ds163377.mlab.com:63377/heroku_5m1lf8wv

Run npm run start, which will run both the server and React application at once.

npm run start

Navigate to http://localhost:3000, where you will be able to sign up and generate an account. If using the premade cloud database, USER: admin and PW: admin are already provided.

Kanban board styling similar to Trello
Homebrewed card drag and drop
Overflow for swimlanes and cards
Applicant status updates database on swimlane changes
Commenting system on cards
Uploadable/Downloadable Resumes (.doc, .docx, .pdf enforced both on frontend and backend)
User Authentication and Sign up
Logout feature
Full MVC Framework

Homepage:

More Info:

Applicant Signup

LOGIN PAGE SECURITY - The Login screen can be easily bypassed by changing the state. There is logic for session cookies in the server code, but ran out of time to implement a more robust solution
PERSISTENT LOGIN - Persistent login is not yet implemented. Refreshing the page will bring the user back to the login page. This can be resolved with the session cookies as stated above.
RATING SYSTEM - Applicant rating system was not implemented. Ideally, rating would be displayed under the email section with filled in stars out of 5. Database would house an array of ratings and the controller would average out the values in that array, giving us the average applicant rating. Rating the applicant would be in the MORE INFO drop down and would not show other user's ratings.
LIVE DEPLOYMENT - There were issues getting the app to run on a live Heroku instance. The issue mainly stemmed from the use of nodemon rather than node. This can be resolved using rimraf to compile the serverside code back into modules.