Margaret Save

This is the umbrella repository of Margaret.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Contributing
• Project structure
• Projects
• License

Introduction

Margaret is an open-source publishing platform (think of Medium). The initial scope is to implement the majority of features Medium has. In the future, we'll implement features that will set Margaret apart.

Features

• Authentication

  • Users can sign up and sign in using their Facebook, Google and/or GitHub accounts

  • Users can sign in by clicking a magic link sent to their emails

• Stories

  • Basic functionality

  • Views are counted

  • Users can publish monetized stories that only members can read

• Memberships

  • Users can opt in to our membership program

  • Members have access to a wider selection of stories

• Notifications

  • Basic functionality

  • Users can see only their notifications

  • Users can mark a notification as read

  • Some notifications send emails

  • Real-time functionality

• Publications

  • Basic functionality

  • Admins can invite users to the publication

  • Members of the publication can have different roles (writer, editor, etc)

  • Writers can create drafts under the publication

  • Editors can edit and publish drafts under the publication

• Recommendation system

  • The users' feeds are personalized based on their interests thanks to machine learning

• Follow system

  • Basic functionality

  • Users can follow other users and publications

• Star system

  • Users can star stories and comments

• Bookmark system

  • Users can bookmark stories and comments to read later

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.

Project structure

• __tests__: Contains end-to-end tests written in JavaScript with Jest.

• .github: Contains GitHub template files.

• .vscode: Contains VSCode workspace configuration files.

• k8s: Contains Kubernetes manifests for production deployment.

• projects: Contains the projects Margaret consist of.

• scripts: Contains useful scripts for CI and other things.

Projects

• api: Margaret's main API (Elixir, Phoenix & Absinthe).
• ml: Machine learning predictions service (Django).
• web: Web app (React).
• mobile: Mobile app (React Native).

Scripts

• build.sh: Builds and tags the Docker images.

• deploy.sh: Builds, tags and pushes the Docker images.

• gen_env_file.sh: Copies the example env file to the actual env file.

• push.sh: Pushes the Docker images.

• test.sh: Runs all the tests.

License

MIT