Project-Management-System

A project management system created using:

• Node.js and Express for the backend using the Microservice Architecture.
• MS SQL server for the database.
• React.js for the frontend.

Third Party Intergrations

1.Gmail

• Send Email Upon Successful User Registration
• Send System Usage Instructions Upon Successful Login

2.Africa's Talking

• Send a welcome SMS Upon Successful User Registration

Modules

1. Users

• Bcrypt to hash password before storing it to the database and to decrypt it when signing in.
• Json web tokens(JWT) for authorization ie, generate a token when a user signs in so that they can perform private functionalities like updating their profile and also for viewing private routes.
• Users are assigned projects which also contain tasks.

2. Projects

• A user can work on a single Project
• A project has multiple tasks

3. Tasks

• A tasks can belong to a single project
• Users can be assigned multiple projects

Database

Create a MS SQL server database and give it your preferred name and add three tables

• Users
• Projects
• Tasks

Microservices

1.User-Service

• Handles all the user services.
• An example is the user authentication.

2.Projects_Tasks-Service

• Handles all the projects and tasks services.
• An example is project assigning.

3.Background-Service

• Handles all the background services cron jobs.
• An example is the email and sms cron jobs that run every second watching for new users.

Env Variables

Create a .env file in the root and add the following

DB_HOST= localhost
DB_USER= ms sql server username
DB_NAME= your database name
DB_PASSWORD= your sql server password
SECRET_KEY= your secret key

Install Dependencies (root,client & servers)

# install concurrently in the root directory
npm install

cd Serverside/Userservice
npm install

cd Serverside/Projects_Task_Service
npm install

cd Serverside/BackgroundService
npm install

cd ClientSide/user-system
npm install

Run

# Run client (:3000) & servers (:8000, :9000, :7000)
npm start server.js