Task assignment

Web application for assignment of tasks developed in Symfony 4.

• Which is used in the project
• General functionality
• Installation
  • What do you need to have installed previously?
  • Installation and start-up instructions
• Screenshots of some views

Which is used in the project

• Composer to manage Symfony dependencies.
• Bootstrap 3 as front-end component library.
• Font Awesome 4 as icons package.
• Bootbox.js to send alerts and confirmations with JS.
• Elasticsearch as search engine of the application, to work needs JAVA.
• Symfony translation for translations, the application is translated into Spanish and English
• Webpack Encore to manage CSS and JavaScript. To work needs Node.js and the package manager YARN
• Third-party bundles for some tasks such as paging (KnpPaginatorBundle) or integrate more easily other technologies such as elasticsearch (FOSElasticaBundle)
• The application makes use of the most common tools used in Symfony projects such as forms, validators, console commands, security system ... etc

General functionality

The application has 2 types of users, users with administrator role and users with user role:

• Administrators can manage system users and tasks. They are also responsible for assigning tasks to common users
• Common users can see the tasks assigned to them and mark them as completed

Installation

What do you need to have installed previously?

To install the application and everything works correctly you need to have installed the following

1. XAMPP
2. Composer
3. Node.js
4. YARN
5. JAVA
6. Elasticsearch

Installation and start-up instructions

1. Clone the project from the repository: $ git clone https://github.com/sergio-santiago/task-assignment.git
2. In the project directory run the composer install command to install the composer dependencies
3. Run the yarn install command to install YARN dependencies
4. Make sure you have MySQL up, in the next steps you will establish connection with it
5. Configure the .env file with the values to create the database. You should modify this line DATABASE_URL=mysql://db_user:db_password@127.0.0.1:3306/db_name
6. Execute the php bin/console doctrine:database:create command to create the database with the values configured in the previous step
7. Execute the php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate command to create tables in the database
8. Execute the command yarn run encore dev to compile the assets of the project
9. Execute the php bin/console app:create:admin command to start the wizard that will help you create a user with which to access the application
10. Run the project with the command php bin/console server:run
11. Access with your browser to the address http://127.0.0.1:8000
12. You can now access the system with the user that you have previously created

Screenshots of some views