A2P - Automated Application Process

Author: Marc-Antoine Augé

A2P is a a complete online solution to automate the administration of the Application Process of Social Hackers Academy (see), based on the technologies teached in the Coding School.

The project is splitted into three parts:

applicant-frontend: a website in React which provides to the applicants a mobile-first website where it's easy to apply and check their progression ;
superviser-frontend: a website in VueJS which provides to the supervisors an easy way to validate the different steps, start new cohorts... ;
backend: a complete API in NodeJS and Express in order to link together the [MongoDB][mongodb] database and the frontends ;

Release v1.0.0

Adding words counter (on all long text questions) (resolves #24);
Updating all static texts + email templates according to the current need ;
Adding label, deadline and location edition on open processes (resolves #34) ;
Feedback on acceptation and rejection : it's possible to edit the email template directly for each applicant (resolves #35).

The templates are written in html and use Mustache as template engine.

Add applicant filters by 'accepted', 'rejected', and 'pending task' (resolves #36)
Export of applicants data in an excel file (resolves #28)

Release v0.2.0

Email supports (templates could be found in backend/emails/). It uses email-templates and pugjs as the template engine. pughtml.com can be used to test the template engine. An email is sent after each step

Deprecated in v1.0.0. All the templates are written in html

Static updates on the applicant frontend: texts are more explicit and can be edited through the file applicant-frontend/src/static.json.
HTML support on page's caption
Reset passwort feature (very basic, a new password is generated by the backend and sent to the user)
Bugs fixing on the applicant frontend: when you pressed on an 'arrow' in a text field, the page changed
An applicant is automatically logged in after his application
Delete Applicant feature (accessible through the applicant panel in the superviser website)

Release v0.1.0

Allow an applicant to apply and to an opened process
Allow an applicant to start completing a step and save it before submit it
Allow an applicant to see the status of each of his step: -- todo if not submitted, -- pending if submitted and waiting a validation by a superviser, -- validated if validated by a superviser, -- rejected if the answer should be edited and submitted again. Only steps in status todo and rejected can be edited.
Process deadline displayed
Checking the required answers before going next page
Allow swiping on mobile to change the current page
Allow fully customization of processes with an easy-to-use draft form (a form cannot be edited once it's opened)
Allow to see the progress of every applicant and validate & note every step if needed
Allow to start a new process from an existing one

Installation (production)

git clone https://github.com/Marc-AntoineA/A2P.git

Prerequisites

Create a MongoDB database and an user (see Atlas)
Create a OAuth2 token to the GMail address used (see How to get a gmail token) (not useful now)
Edit the settings.json file of backend properly.

On your computer, to build the code and upload everything on your hosting via ftp

./deploy.sh -ftp ftpPath -u ftpUser

Installation (for development)

A2P requires Node.js, React and VueJS

git clone https://github.com/Marc-AntoineA/A2P.git

Prerequisites

Create a MongoDB database and an user (see Atlas)
Create a OAuth2 token to the GMail address used (see How to get a gmail token)
Edit the settings.json files properly.

Backend

Install the dependencies and and start the server.

$ cd backend
$ npm install
$ npm start

The website will be accessible in localhost:3000.

Superviser-Frontend

Install the dependencies and start the server

$ cd superviser-frontend
$ npm install
$ npm start

The server is started on port 8080

In production:

$ npm run build

build the complete application in a /dist folder, automatically served by the backend in the relative path: /administration (static files in path /administration/static-superviser).

Applicant-Frontend

Install the dependencies and start the server

$ cd applicant-frontend
$ npm install
$ npm start

The server is started on port 3300.

In production:

$ npm run build

build the complete application in a /build folder, automatically served by the backend in the relative path: / (static-files in path /static-applicant).

License

MIT