Ideation Portal

Ideation portal for companies to create a repository of ideas.

Pre-requisites

• nodejs
• npm | yarn
• docker
• docker-compose

Features

The applcation contains contains a lot of basic useful features:

1. Authentication: auth is written in a plug-and-play (dependency injection) manner and you can simply switch to the authentication system you desire. For reference, please checkout auth0 authentication implementation and implement all these functions in your prefered auth provider and plug your custom file in AuthProvider file.

2. Search / Filter: You of the box, you get the search and filter functionality on the home page, besides that, you can see the Add Idea button and the list of ideas below the filters which contain some meta data of the ideas and Read More button to checkout the details of the idea.

3. Comments & Likes: You can like and comment on the ideas as well to find out ideas that most people like and want to contribute towards.

4. We also have a reports functionality, you can very easily add your own graphs but out of the box, you get ideas created per month, ideas by department, category & status.

Deployment

• Rename .env.example to .env and update configurations as per requirement.
  • You can get the value for HASURA_GRAPHQL_JWT_SECRET hasura.io/jwt-config tool.
  • AUTH0_DOMAIN and AUTH0_CLIENT_ID can be found in your auth0 account.
  • Ensure you are keeping a secure HASURA_GRAPHQL_ADMIN_SECRET.
• Start application using docker-compose up -d.

Note: If you are deploying to Hasura Cloud, remember to change the value of from_env in databases.yaml from HASURA_GRAPHQL_METADATA_DATABASE_URL to HEROKU_DATABASE_URL (or whatever your environment variable name is on the cloud) because HASURA_GRAPHQL_METADATA_DATABASE_URL wouldn't work.

Development

• Install dependencies: npm install --include=dev
• Rename .env.example to .env and update configurations as per requirement. (Read deploy section for information about some variables)
• Start graphql-engine & database: docker-compose up -d
• Apply metadata to hasura: npm run metadata-apply
• Apply migrations to hasura: npm run migrate
• Reload metadata: npm run metadata-reload
• Start hasura console: npm run hasura
• Start react application (On a different terminal): npm run react-start

Note: Remember to checkout more commands in package.json.