Task Management System

Team-based task tracking with real-time updates using NestJS, Next.js, and PostgreSQL.

Tech Stack: Next.js , NestJS , PostgreSQL , Prisma , JWT , WebSockets

Overview

A full-stack task management system designed for teams. Users can create organizations, manage multiple projects, and assign tasks with real-time updates. Built with Next.js (App Router) for the frontend and NestJS for the backend, the system ensures high performance and scalability, with secure JWT-based authentication and live sync via WebSockets.

Features

  • ✅ Basic Authentication: User login for personal tasks
  • ✅ Task Listing
  • ✅ Task Creation
  • 🔲 Task Editing: Modify existing tasks
  • 🔲 Task Deletion: Remove tasks
  • 🔲 Task Completion Status: Mark tasks as done/pending
  • 🔲 Advanced Authentication: Login with GitHub
  • 🔲 Due Dates & Reminders: Set deadlines
  • 🔲 Voice-to-Task Conversion (First AI Feature)
  • 🔲 Smart Task Categorization or Prioritization

System Design

To be attached

High-Level Architecture

  • Frontend: Next.js (App Router), TailwindCSS, Tanstack Query
  • Backend: NestJS (modular architecture), WebSocket Gateway
  • Database: PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM
  • Auth: Access token in app context, refresh token in HTTP-only cookie
  • Real-time Sync: WebSockets used for task changes and notifications

Road Map

  • 🔐 Authentication & Authorization

    • ✅ JWT-based authentication (@nestjs/jwt, @nestjs/passport) - Done
    • 🔲 Role-based access control (RBAC)
    • 🔲 Refresh token mechanism
    • 🔲 OAuth2 & Social login support (Google, GitHub, etc.)

  • 🗄️ Database & ORM (Prisma)

    • ✅ Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB (Using Prisma ORM) - Done
    • ✅ Pagination with Sorting - Done
    • ✅ Migrations & seeding - Done
    • 🔲 Repository pattern for modularity

  • 📜 API Documentation

    • 🔲 Auto-generated Swagger docs (@nestjs/swagger)

  • ❗ Validation & Serialization

    • ✅ Request validation with class-validator & class-transformer - Done
    • ✅ Global validation pipes - Done

  • 📜 Logging & Monitoring

    • 🔲 Structured logging with Winston/Pino
    • 🔲 Request/response logging via NestJS interceptors
    • 🔲 Optional Prometheus or OpenTelemetry integration

  • 🚨 Error Handling

    • 🔲 Custom exception filters
    • 🔲 Standardized API response structure

  • ⚙️ Configuration Management

    • ✅ .env handling with @nestjs/config - Done
    • 🔲 Environment-specific configurations

  • 🛡️ Security & Rate Limiting

    • 🔲 @nestjs/throttler for rate limiting
    • ✅ Helmet for securing HTTP headers - Done
    • ✅ CORS configuration - Done

  • 🧪 Testing Setup

    • ✅ Unit tests with Jest - Done
    • ✅ E2E tests with Supertest - Done

  • 🚀 CI/CD & Deployment

    • 🔲 Docker support with Dockerfile & docker-compose
    • 🔲 GitHub Actions for CI/CD
    • 🔲 Terraform/Kubernetes for infrastructure as code

  • 🎨 Code Quality & Linting

    • 🔲 ESLint, Prettier, Husky (pre-commit hooks)

  • 🩺 Health Checks & Metrics

    • 🔲 /health endpoint with @nestjs/terminus