Simple-Forum

A project by Steve Chang - February 12, 2017

Instructions

Enter the simple-forum directory and npm start.

Goals

Simple-Forum is a project I wanted to do for a while. Any virtual community needs a message board in order to thrive and grow its following. My web projects are no exception. This project would make it easy to deploy a base forum system and then apply specific styles to match a project's theme. This is something I'll be chipping away at very slowly.

5/14/2017: Changed front-end to use ReactJS.

Tech

• ReactJS

Long-term TODO

• Create basic thread-post system with user login capabilities.

Short-term TODO

• Create AWS Endpoint to post to a thread with thread_id.

Database Schema

Users:

• (ID)
• username
• email
• points
• title
• Name color
• Border color
• Background color
• Text color
• Text decoration
• Date joined
• Date last login
• Number of Posts (not a column, tallied from Posts table)

Threads:

• (ID)
• Title
• Number of Posts (not a column, tallied from Posts table)

Posts:

• (ID)
• ((userID))
• content
• views

UserTrophies:

• (ID)
• ((trophyID))
• ((userID))

Trophies:

• (ID)
• name
• ImageURL

ThankedPosts:

• (ID)
• ((postID))
• ((userID))

UserPage:

• (ID)
• ((userID))
• views

Justifications

• This forum will be gameified, something I'm interested in. Points will be awarded for interacting or logging in each day. I will do AB testing to see what works best.
• Users will not have an avatar picture. They will instead have post styles awarded to them. (Gold background, etc.) This will incentivize earning points.