The World Needs Therapy

Goal

Provide personal opinions and stories to improve people's lives by discussing main issues that humans struggle with

Topics

optional

• Denial
• Self-Esteem
• Compliance
• Control
• Avoidance
• Anxiety
• Depression

Tech Stack

MERN

• Frontend: React/Redux
• APIs: NodeJs/Express
• DB: Mongo/Mongoose

Features/Specs

Blog Post List

Phase 1

• Title
• Date created/updated
• Author (or Anonymous)
• Topics (checkboxes)
• Text
• Filter by topic
• Status: 'public' or 'private'

Phase 2

• Images (file upload?)
• Videos (restricted to YouTube or Vimeo)
• Pagination
• Sort by date
• Filter by author
• Commenting (third party?)

Account/Logged In

Users/Authors

• Authorized login with role levels
  • Add user
  • Edit user
  • Delete user
• Role levels
  • 1: create Create post
  • 2: edit Edit posts
  • 3: delete Delete posts
  • 4: publish Publish posts.
  • 5: account Account management: user accounts, role levels and topic list
• DB Table: Users
  • id: Mongoose ObjectId: required
  • firstName: String(40): required
  • lastName: String(40): required
  • username: String(40): required: UNIQUE (author display name)
  • email: String(256): required: UNIQUE
  • password: String(256): required (hashed password)
  • roles: [Mongoose ObjectId, Mongoose ObjectId]: required (primary key from Roles table)

Posts

• Add post
• Edit post
• Delete post
• DB Table: Posts (all html safe)
  • id: Mongoose ObjectId: required
  • title: String(200): required: UNIQUE
  • author: Mongoose ObjectId: required (primary key from Users table)
  • anonymous: Boolean: default=false
  • topics: [Mongoose ObjectId, Mongoose ObjectId]: optional (primary key from Topics table)
  • contentType: String(20): required
  • content: String(5000): required
  • dateCreated: datetime: required
  • dateUpdated: datetime: optional
  • imageUrl: String(256): optional
  • videoUrl: String(256): optional
  • status: Mongoose ObjectId: required (primary key from Status table)

Topics

• Add topic
• Edit topic
• Delete topic
• DB Table: Topics
  • id: Mongoose ObjectId: required
  • topic: String(52): required: UNIQUE

Status

• No CRUD needed
• DB Table: Status
  • id: Mongoose ObjectId: required
  • status: String(40): required: UNIQUE

Roles

• No CRUD needed
• DB Table: Roles
  • id: Mongoose ObjectId: required
  • status: String(12): required: UNIQUE