DoorBoard

This is Team Nicolai Thärichen's iteration-one code for the DoorBoard web app, as part of The UMM CSCI Department's "Software Design and Development" class (Spring 2020).

🐚 Teams considering using this code base for iteration two should read items marked with seashells.

DoorBoard is a virtual sticky-note board for office dwellers who need a way to remotely and conveniently post last minute scheduling announcements (or other information) to visitors.

Known Issues

Almost all of the code in this repository is in a working state. However, there a couple of known issues with this project; if you use this code base, you should fix these for the next iteration.

1. 🐚 The website isn't very legible if your browser is in dark mode. To fix this, you may want to change the color of the text on the sticky-notes so that it's always black. This change should probably go in the client/src/app/notes.scss file. (You also probably want to change client/src/app/app.component.scss so that the background color isn't always whitesmoke; in dark mode, the background color should probably be dark grey.)
2. 🐚 When the user clicks the GENERATE PDF button, a PDF file is saved to their downloads folder. At the moment, this file doesn't have the .pdf extension at the end. To fix this, you'll need to change the savePDF() method in the client/src/app/home/home.component.ts file.
3. 🐚 In server/src/main/java/umm3601/notes/NoteController.java, the methods editNote() and deleteNote() will throw an exception if the path parameter :id isn't formatted like a Mongo ID (for example, if it isn't a hex string, or if it's got the wrong number of digits). This will cause a 500 Internal Server Error.

API

🐚 The server's API is a bit weird in places. A full description of the API is can be found in HTTP_API.md.

Deployment

As always, instructions on how to crate a DigitalOcean Droplet and setup the project are in DEPLOYMENT.md.

🐚 If you want to deploy this project on a new droplet, you will need to change the domain name in the file client/src/environments/environment.prod.ts. (Specifically, you need to change the value of BASE_URL.) This value is used to generate the link on the PDF; if you don't change it, the PDF will point to the webpage from iteration one.