Tino Bulletin Forum

Overview & Features

A bulletin/forum page for Cupertino High School, built by Tinovation. Post are attached to a specific "bulletin" and users will only see posts from subscribed bulletins. Posts must be approved by an admin or a moderator for the relevant bulletin before it is published to the users. Posting privileges to bulletins can be restricted by configuring it to be private. Post searching is implemented.

Screenshots

Feed

Profile

Mobile

Developer Notes

Tools

• Node.js - Language used for implementing backend
• Express.js - Node.js web hosting framework
• Bootstrap - Frontend styling toolkit
• EJS - JS templator
• Firebase - Development platform, used for its authentication service and realtime database

Environmental Variables

• Firebase Credentials
• Database URL

Client access to Firebase must also be configured to the correct database. The Firebase realtime database will generate a config.json file to be served.

Installation

npm install // Install necessary packages
npm dev // Development hosting, run with nodemon
npm start // Production Serve

DB Schema

categories: {
    <category-name> : {
        members: [email] | undefined, // Undefined if public
        moderators: [email] | undefined, // Undefined if public
        private: bool,
		pin: <post-id> | undefined
    }, ...
}

posts: {
    <post-id>: {
        approved: bool,
        author: email,
        authorName: username,
        attachments: [url] | undefined,
        category: string,
        postTime: unix ms timestamp,
        text: string,
        title: string,
    }, ...
}

users: {
    <user-id>: {
        admin: bool
        categories: {
            <category-name>: true 
        }
        email: string
        name: string
    }, ...
}