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Slink

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Minimum Viable Product

Slink is a real time chat app inspired by Slack powered by Ruby on Rails and React/Redux. By August 4th, this app will, at a minimum, have the following features.

• Heroku Hosting
• User/Login with Demo Login
• Live Chat
• Channels
• Direct Messaging
• Drag'n'Drop
• Production README

Design Docs

• Wireframes
• React Components
• API Endpoints
• DB Schema
• Stample State

Implementation Timeline

Phase 1: Backend setup and Front End User Authentication (2 days)

Objective: Functioning rails project with front-end Authentication

Phase 2: User and Messages Models and APIs (2 days)

Objective: Users can be created and messages can be created and related to a user through the api.

Phase 3: Socket Integration (2 days)

Objective: Messages should be able to be sent with other users being updated at the time the message is sent.

Phase 4: Channels (1 day)

Objective: Messages should appear filtered by channel.

Phase 5: Direct Messaging (1 day)

Objective: Messages should be able to be sent privately to other users.

Phase 6: Teams (2 days)

Objective: Messages and channels should be tied to teams, and users should have a list of teams they are on.