Queue Overflow

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How to Run the Code?

This section describes how the app can be viewed in action.

git clone https://github.com/palashshah/queue-overflow.git queue-overflow
cd queue-overflow
composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate

If you want dummy data and add demo users, then run this-

php artisan db:seed

To run the server,

php artisan serve

Once the application is running, go to the following link. The admin account's username and password is

Username: admin@admin.com
Password: secret

The user account's username and password is

Username: demo@user.com
Password: secret

Features

This section contains the workflow of the application

Karma system

• 10 points of each upvote
• -2 for downvote
• No points for comments up and downvote.
• A user can change his/her vote i.e. earlier he/she can upvote, and then later change it to downvote.
• A user can “accept answer” on his own question. This will award 20 points to author of the answer.

Administrator has following powers:

• Make any other user (already registered) as admin.
• Edit any of question, answer or comment.
• Take or Give bonus points to any user, without the need of voting.
• Suspend any user, in this case, the user can only browse in read-only mode.

Users can display the questions based on tags.

Notification system in which user get notified for following things:

• A new answer has been posted on your question "question-link"
• "user-name" has up up/down voted your comment/answer on "question-link" .
• You have been awarded points by "admin-name".

Extras

• Token based authentication on all APIs, instead of session based.
• Cool editor for writing question, answer and comments.
• Security check for vulnerable codes in text editor while adding question/answer/comment, like omitting scripts.