Published on Feb 16th, 2023
My solar energy startup platform FasoLara has reached a new milestone recently and I decided to start a new blog series about it!
The project management platform has been a long journey since I published my first commit to GitHub in October 2020. What started based on a simple idea quickly became a behemoth of a software engineering project for my beginner programmer skills. I have poured thousands of hours into research, tutorials and coding to figure out how to put something like this together. Since then, I have made multiple changes to the FasoLara repository.
The platform is currently open source, but I am using a private fork to publish the 3 different components to the Vercel platform. I had a basic demo of the admin dashboard with 6 pages before I removed all the sample data, then upgraded everything to the app directory in NextJS 13 and connected the dashboard to the backend server featuring Apollo GraphQL server v4.
Yesterday, February 15th, 2023, I added Next-Auth to handle authentication. Initial testing of the next-auth version seems to work with the appDir in Next.JS 13. It is far from the login experience that I want. It will take more effort to iron out the details because proper documentation is still rare
