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@JonDevOps JonDevOps merged commit ddf284d into w3develops:main Dec 11, 2025
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This pull request focuses on establishing a robust foundation for the project by integrating essential configuration files, comprehensive documentation, and clear architectural guidelines. It streamlines the development environment, defines critical backend data structures, and refines the repository's overall organization, preparing the project for future development and collaboration.

Highlights

  • Project Setup & Configuration: Introduced a new Nix development environment configuration (.idx/dev.nix) to standardize the development setup, and significantly expanded the .gitignore file to ensure proper exclusion of build artifacts, dependencies, and editor-specific files.
  • Documentation & Guidelines: Added crucial documentation including a LICENSE file, a detailed docs/backend.json schema outlining the structure of backend entities (UserProfile, StudyGroup, Cohort, Notification, Feedback), and a docs/blueprint.md that defines the core features and style guidelines for the w3Develops application.
  • Repository Structure Refinement: Cleaned up the repository by removing several outdated or irrelevant configuration files such as .babelrc, .bashrc, .htaccess, .ruby-version, and .travis.yml. Additionally, multiple .github configuration files were renamed to correct their directory path.
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Code Review

This pull request lays a strong foundation for the project by adding necessary configuration files, documentation, and cleaning up the repository structure. The changes introduce a modern Next.js and Firebase stack.

My review has focused on the provided file changes. I've left a few comments regarding development environment safety, license clarity, and a note on data modeling for privacy.

IMPORTANT: I was unable to add comments directly to firestore.rules as it was not included in the provided diff. However, my review of that file revealed several critical security vulnerabilities that must be addressed:

  • Follower Count Manipulation (critical): The rules on lines 38-39 of firestore.rules allow users to modify their own followers list, which could be abused to artificially inflate follower counts. This logic should be handled server-side (e.g., via a Cloud Function).
  • User Enumeration (high): The rule on line 45 of firestore.rules allows any authenticated user to list all usernames, creating a user enumeration vulnerability. This should be disabled.
  • Privacy Bypass (high): The read rule on line 20 of firestore.rules for user profiles does not respect the followInfoPrivate flag, exposing follower/following lists even when they are meant to be private.

Comment on lines +16 to +17
# Disabling because we are using prod backends right now
detect = false;

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critical

The configuration is set to use production backends for development (detect = false; with the comment Disabling because we are using prod backends right now). This poses a critical risk to your production data, as development activities could lead to accidental data corruption, deletion, or exposure. It is strongly recommended to use the local Firebase Emulators or a separate, dedicated development project instead.

    # We recommend enabling emulators for local development to avoid impacting production data.
    detect = true;

Comment on lines +1 to +51
BSD 3-Clause License

Copyright (c) 2019, w3Develops
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

* Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013-2019 Blackrock Digital LLC

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

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high

This LICENSE file contains two separate licenses (BSD 3-Clause and MIT) concatenated together. This creates legal ambiguity regarding how the software is licensed. Please clarify the project's license.

  • If the project is intended to be under a single license, this file should contain only that one.
  • If it's dual-licensed, the terms should be made explicit, for example by adding a preamble explaining that users can choose which license to use.

Comment on lines +90 to +93
"followInfoPrivate": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "If true, the user's follower and following lists are private."
},

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medium

The schema includes a followInfoPrivate flag, which is great for user privacy. Please ensure that the backend implementation, particularly the Firestore security rules, correctly enforces this. A common pitfall is having rules that don't prevent unauthorized reads of the followers and following fields when this flag is true. Since Firestore rules don't support field-level read restrictions, this often requires separating sensitive information (like follower lists) into a different document or subcollection that can be secured independently.

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