TeamTask - Task Managing Web App | src: https://team-task-fedecha.onrender.com/

A simple and collaborative fullstack Task managing App, built for Teams and Individuals to track and manage their tasks, keeping the workspace productive and organized.

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How it's made

Tech used: EJS, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Express, MongoDB and passport.js.

Notable Dependencies:

connect-mongo (https://www.npmjs.com/package/connect-mongo)
- Used to save cookie in database that allowed for user's session to persist.
dotenv (https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv)
- Intergration of .env file that allows protection and processing of environment variables.
express-session (https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-session)
- Middleware that aids formating of user session cookie data. Used in cooperation with 'connect-mongo' to store the session in the database.
mongoose (https://mongoosejs.com/)
- Schema-based solution to model application data. Used to validate/organize database user and story entries.
morgan (https://www.npmjs.com/package/morgan)
- Node. js and Express middleware to log HTTP requests and errors. Used to simply process of testing/troubleshooting during development.
passport (https://www.passportjs.org/)
- Authentication middleware for Node.js. Used to modularize the authentication process with OAuth and Google login.
passport-local (https://www.passportjs.org/packages/passport-local/)
- The local authentication strategy authenticates users using a username and password.
ejs- local (https://ejs.co/)
- embeded javascript templating language for the frontend.
bcrypt (https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt)
- A library to help you hash passwords.

Lessons Learned:

In using the MVC Structure for our CRUD application, we learned how data flows from the model to the view to the controller. We learned to apply our data to let a user create a task, assign that task to themselves or another teamate, pick a due date for the task, and apply a dropdown for status updates.

Our biggest challenge was showing the status updates for the team task views. In the future We would like to implement administative roles, a team dashboard, and add a choice for Google Authentication for login.