Coven

A digital community for the modern witch.

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About ● Features ● Instructions ● Development ● Contact

A platform for young witches to gather and share their wealth of knowledge with each other in polished yet minimal and modernized presentation to build an empowering community.

Try the Demo!

[Live Website]

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About

● See Website ●
(Inspired by Medium)

Describe overview of app, themes and philosophy, inspiration, audience, or whatever... 1-2 paragraphs

Features

• Discover new writing through various algorithms (featured, latest, popular, topic, followed, random)
• Follow users and gain followers.
• Publish articles for others to read, bookmark, like, and comment on.
• Bookmark stories to read later.
• Watch topics to find relevant content.

Current Progress Plans

This project is currently being rebuilt from the ground up as a solo-dev project with an original thematic concept, a mobile-first design approach, a modular and SMACSS-based CSS file structure, and cookies-based authentication.

FUNCTIONALITY

• Get all pages navigable and reading content correctly.
• Toggles for bookmark/like/follow/watch.
• CRUD for articles.
• CRUD for comments.
• (stretch) Edit/delete options for users.
• (stretch) Rich text editor
• (stretch) Search

PRESENTATION

• Page and component layouts
• Global themes
• Seeder data - users, articles, comments, joins (bookmark, like, follow, watch, tag)
• CSS Modules, states, details

Instructions

Create an account Discover new articles Publish an article How to comment One-click interactions (Bookmark, Follow, Like, Watch)

Create an Account

• To do a thing, follow this step.
• TIP This is a helpful tip.
• NOTE This is note about something.
• WARNING! This is a warning!

Discover New Articles

Publish an Article

How to Comment

One-click Interactions

Watch a Topic

Bookmark an Article

Like an Article

Follow an Author

Development

DEV TOC
Technologies ● Concept ● Models ● Routes ● Wireframes ● Dev Snapshots

This section is kept in a separate document HERE.
It details the technical aspects of this project's development.
A few sample snapshots are below from the development process.

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Contact

Thank you for for your interest in Coven! Please feel free to contact me with any questions. :D

Alicia Mira Kim

(Full-stack developer, Open to work)

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Previous README

Kept for posterity until the new README and site has reached a strong milestone.

MVP

The MVP is the minimum we will accept as a group to consider our project complete.

Features

The Features List

Routes

Front-End-Routes

Back-End-Routes

Schema

The Database shchema design for medium, along with a visual representation.

Technologies used

• postgreSQL (RDBMS)
• Sequelize, Sequelize-cli (ORM)
• JavaScript with Express web framework for the server
• morgan
• cookie-parser, csurf
• pug (HTML template plugin)
• Sass/CSS Modules
• csrf

Dev Tools

• nodemon
• dotenv dotenv-cli