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The plan and its optimal stack - AquaHub #2

In the last few days I made a rough plan about where I want AquaHub to go. Thought about the project I want to start AquaHub with and made a little roadmap for the next few steps.

 🌐 Open-Source

In the last blog post I said I will think about if I open source the projects or not. The answer is YES! I will put all projects and their source code open-source on GitHub for you to look into and maybe also contribute 🤩.

🏆 Roadmap

To have something to orient myself by I made the beginning of a roadmap. It shows the first few projects I want to build and build the foundation of AquaHub.

AquaHub Roadmap

Accounts
Let me explain what I exactly mean by that because there can be some misunderstandings. I'm sick of giving away personal data and all of a sudden I get personalised ads and because of this there won't be nothing like that at AquaHub. As you read above it's all going to be open-source.
It's going to be more of a central profile for each future software and also for me to be able to implement authentication easier.

Teams
After I built the accounts system called AquaProfile I want to get some order into the accounts. Because of that I build a website where you can create a team and be able to handle all of your members easy, simple and fast.

Now comes the part where I still couldn't agree. I am split between two plans. I would love if some of you would give me your expertise and personal opinion on that. I'm just going to explain each of it quickly.

Organizations
A tool for you too manage multiple teams at once. Have the ability to create some sort of a tree structure with your team members. This is probably only necessary for bigger groups or even companies.

Softwares
This part is still open but on the roadmap it stands for products that are going to be a part of the AquaHub network and it's image.

 ⚙️ Tech-Stack

To introduce you guys to the projects and also have a solid plan for each of AquaHub's products I built a Tech Stack.

NextJS
It's going to be the JavaScript framework for frontend and backend. It's based on ReactJS but has many more features built in.

TypeScript
To prevent more bugs and increase productivity we want a type-safe environment. TypeScript's going to help us with that 😉.

Prisma
To handle our MariaDB database we user Prisma as our ORM.

TailwindCSS
I'm not a big fan of writing huge CSS files and classes so we will use TailwindCSS which has a huge community and tons of features.

JestJS
As our software grows we want to prevent bugs from happening in production so we write tests with JestJS.

Prettier
Just a little addition I made a general prettier config file so everyone has the same formatting.

Docker / Devcontainer
To help host and develop our softwares we use Docker for final hosting and when developing I built a devcontainer (VSCode feature) that has all needed extensions and configurations in it.

MariaDB
A relational database with a big community and good developer experience.

next-connect
This is neither a language nor a framework. It's just a small package to have a more ExpressJS like codebase in the backend. I'm not a fan of NextJS backend itself but with this package I love it.

So if you want to contribute to a project here you go. I will also create many issues and a guide how to setup everything. Choose an issue, create a merge request and I will gladly review it 🤩.

Thanks for reading!

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krass, ein cooles Projekt!

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Jannis

Thank you man 🙏