Features MVP

Sign up / Login / User Authentication

• The application's users will be able to sign up with a username, email and password.
• Usernames will be unique, meaning no one else can have the same username (validations are set in place to ensure this).
• Users will login using their username or email and password through an authentication service.

Authorization

• Features that are only available once the user logs in:
  • Editing their profile.
  • Make, update and delete list and list items
  • Like a list
  • Favorite a list
  • View lists
  • View other users profile, their list genre, and lists
  • Follow a user.
• DEMO user
  • This feature to allow a new user to test the website functionality without having to sign up.
  • The demo user will have limited authorization to certain features.

List

• Each list will contain list items (similar to a photo album containing many photos)
• Logged in users
  • Can create, edit and delete lists.
  • name a list (i.e. "Top 10 players in the NBA", "Top 10 React resources")
  • add cover photo to list
• Users that are not logged in
  • Can view lists and view lists on a different users profile page.
  • Cannot favorite a list unless logged in.
  • Cannot like a list unless logged in.

List Items

• Logged in users
  • Can add, edit and delete a list item.
• Users that are not logged in
  • Can view lists and view users profile pages.
  • Cannot follow a user unless logged in.
  • Cannot favorite (star) a list unless logged in.
  • Cannot like a list unless logged in.
• List item card will contain:
  • title
  • an image
  • description
  • link (optional)

List Genre/Album

• A list will have a main category or genre that it can be tagged under (i.e. "basketball", "manga", "React", "Software Engineering Resources" ,etc.)
• So a list item belongs to a list, and a list belongs under a list genre / album.

Likes

• For liking a list, logged in users can do the following
  • Create a like on a list.
  • Unlike a list.
• All users can view likes on a list.

Following a user

• Logged in users can follow another user.
• Users that are not logged in
  • Cannot follow a user unless logged in.

User feed (home page)

• When logged in, user will be able to see:
  • All lists for people they follow (follow tab).
  • All lists recommendations (main global feed tab).

README

• Brief explanation of what the app is and does.
• How to start development environment.
• Technologies used.
• Link to live site.
• Link to Wiki docs.
• Discussion of two features that show off the team's technical abilities.
• Discussion of both challenges faced and the way the team solved them.
• Code snippets to highlight the best code.

Bonus

*search for a lists