- Create accounts
- Create sessions
- Create stories
- Create publications
- View people and publications
- Subscribe to people and publications
- View a home feed of stories by subscribed people and publications
- View a sidebar of featured tags and top stories on home page
- Edit and write for publications
- Leave responses on stories (new Story object)
- Tag stories
- Search by keyword
- Refine searches by people, publications, and tags
I will implement user authentication using either Twitter or Facebook accounts (what Medium uses), or the more standard App Academy style, depending on which is more feasible and appropriate. By the end of this phase, users should be able to create stories using a simple Rails view form. Users should also be able to create publications, again with a simple form. The priority of this stage is getting the app up and running and pushed to Heroku.
I will add API routes to serve story and publication data as JSON, then add Backbone models and collections that fetch data from those routes. By the end of this phase, users will be able to create publications and publish their stories within certain publications. Users will be able to view publications, stories, and user profiles populated by the stories the user has written. If a story has been published in a publication, it will be visible on both the user's and the publication's profile. Users can create stories in response to other stories. All functionality will be within a single Backbone app.
I plan to use third-party libraries to add functionality to the StoryForm, Confirm Publish, PubForm and
StoryShow views in this phase. In particular, I'm looking for a library that will allow users to style text without knowing Markdown or HTML. Filepicker for file upload so users can add images to stories. I will have to add a Tag class so users can tag posts in the confirm stage.
During this phase I'll implement the site's landing page, which doubles as a user's feed. If the user is signed in, a feed route will be populated using the current_user's followed_people and followed_pubs associations. If not signed in, the feed route will correspond with the admin user's feed (perhaps a random selection, at this point).
A HomeShow view will have a posts collection that fetches from the feed route. The feed will be ordered chronologically by publish date.
This stage is where I will implement the user's ability to follow users and publications.
I will add search routes to Users, Publications, Stories, and Tags. There will be a complementary Backbone view for SearchShow, a composite view made up up PubIndex, StoryIndex, UsersIndex, and TagIndex subviews.
These views will fetch from the collections that already exist for each of the models.
- Leave notes on stories
- Receive notifications
- User icons
- Import stories
- Share stories for editing
- View a feed of Top Stories
- Recommend stories
- Bookmark stories