# Project Plan - Angular Clarity Boilerplate

## 1. Project Goal

To develop and deliver a comprehensive, scalable, and well-documented Angular boilerplate. The final product will serve as a foundational template, enabling developers to rapidly bootstrap new enterprise-grade web applications using the VMware Clarity Design System.

## 2. Methodology

The project will follow an iterative development approach, focusing on establishing a solid architectural foundation first. The goal is to create a robust Minimum Viable Product (MVP) boilerplate that is immediately useful and can be enhanced over time with additional features and refinements based on developer feedback.

## 3. Key Phases & Workflow

1.  **Phase 1: Foundation & Architecture Definition:** Define the core architectural patterns, including the modular structure (`Core`, `Shared`, `Feature` modules) and establish the base project setup.
2.  **Phase 2: MVP Scope & Requirements:** Outline the essential features for the initial boilerplate release, including Clarity integration, responsive layout, and routing. Document these in the PRD and Architecture Document.
3.  **Phase 3: Backlog Creation & Planning:** Break down the architectural and functional requirements into a prioritized list of development tasks.
4.  **Phase 4: Development & Integration:** Implement the core architecture, integrate the Clarity Design System, and build out the foundational components and modules.
5.  **Phase 5: Quality Assurance & Documentation:** Thoroughly test the boilerplate for stability and ease of use. Ensure all key architectural decisions are well-documented within the code and in project documents like the `README.txt`.
6.  **Phase 6: Release & Future Iteration:** Package and release the initial version of the boilerplate. Plan for future enhancements based on potential developer needs and feedback.

## 4. Initial Backlog (MVP Focus)

The following tasks represent the initial backlog for creating the boilerplate:

### Architecture & Setup Tasks
-   Initialize a new project using the Angular CLI.
-   Define and implement the `CoreModule` for singleton services.
-   Define and implement the `SharedModule` for reusable components, pipes, and directives.
-   Configure the main `AppRoutingModule` and set up a basic routing structure.
-   Establish the environment configuration files (`environments` folder).

### Clarity Design System Integration
-   Install all necessary Clarity npm packages (`@clr/angular`, `@clr/ui`, `@cds/core`).
-   Import Clarity's global styles and icon assets into the project.
-   Implement the main application layout (`AppComponent`) using Clarity's header, sidebar, and content area components.
-   Ensure the layout is fully responsive.

### Boilerplate Feature Tasks
-   Create an example of a lazy-loaded `FeatureModule` to demonstrate the pattern.
-   Add a dashboard or home page component as a default view.
-   Include examples of common Clarity components (e.g., a datagrid, a form) on example pages to showcase usage.
-   Implement basic support for switching between Clarity's light and dark themes.

### Documentation Tasks
-   Create a comprehensive `README.txt` with setup instructions, an overview of the architecture, and usage guidelines.
-   Add inline comments to the code to explain key architectural patterns and configurations.
-   Generate all required project documentation (`analysis_document.md`, `architecture_document.md`, etc.).

## 5. Feature Prioritization Strategy

Prioritization will focus on establishing a stable and usable foundation. **Must-have** features include the core modular architecture and full integration of the Clarity layout. **Should-have** features include example pages and components. **Could-have** features for future iterations might include state management integration or CI/CD templates.

## 6. Key Technologies

-   **Frontend Framework:** Angular
-   **Programming Language:** TypeScript
-   **UI Library:** VMware Clarity Design System
-   **Styling:** SCSS
-   **Package Manager:** npm
-   **Build Tool:** Angular CLI

## 7. Success Metrics (MVP)

-   The boilerplate can be successfully cloned and set up with just `npm install` and `ng serve`.
-   The resulting application is stable, responsive, and free of console errors.
-   The project structure is logical and easy for an Angular developer to understand.
-   All core architectural patterns (Core/Shared/Feature modules, lazy loading) are correctly implemented and demonstrated.

## 8. Future Considerations (Post-MVP)

-   Integrating a state management library (e.g., NgRx, Akita) with an example implementation.
-   Adding more complex example pages (e.g., a settings page, a user profile).
-   Creating custom Angular Schematics to automate the creation of new feature modules that follow the boilerplate's conventions.
-   Including pre-configured templates for CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).

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## PROJECT PLAN UPDATE - 2025-10-15 12:39:48

# Project Plan

## 1. Project Goals
This project aims to transform the existing Angular Clarity Boilerplate into a fully functional e-commerce application. Key goals include:
-   **Deliver a comprehensive online shopping experience:** Enable customers to browse products, manage a shopping cart, and complete secure purchases.
-   **Provide efficient administrative capabilities:** Empower store managers to manage products, orders, and user accounts effectively.
-   **Establish a robust and scalable architecture:** Ensure the application can grow with business demands and maintain high performance and security standards.
-   **Achieve rapid market entry:** Leverage the existing boilerplate and a chosen backend framework to accelerate development and deployment.

## 2. Project Scope
The scope encompasses the development and deployment of a full-stack e-commerce application, including:
-   **Frontend (Angular Clarity):** Public-facing product catalog, search/filter, product detail pages, shopping cart, checkout flow, user authentication, user profile management (addresses, order history).
-   **Admin Frontend (Angular Clarity):** Product management (CRUD), category management (CRUD), order management (view, update status), user management (view, role assignment), audit log viewing.
-   **Backend (Python Django with DRF):** RESTful APIs for all frontend functionalities, including authentication (JWT), authorization (RBAC), data persistence (PostgreSQL), and caching (Redis).
-   **Infrastructure:** Docker containerization, CI/CD pipeline, AWS hosting (EC2, RDS, S3, ALB, SES).
-   **Exclusions:** Advanced analytics dashboards, loyalty programs, recommendation engines (beyond basic related products), complex shipping integrations (beyond basic), payment gateway development (reliance on third-party).

## 3. Key Deliverables
Based on the defined Epics in the PRD, the key deliverables are:

### Phase 1: Foundation & Core Development
-   **Completed Product Requirements Document (PRD)**
-   **Core Backend APIs (User, Auth, Product, Category)**
-   **Initial Frontend Integration (Public Product Catalog, Basic User Auth UI)**
-   **Dockerized Frontend and Backend applications**
-   **Basic CI/CD Pipeline for core components**

### Phase 2: MVP Feature Expansion & Admin
-   **Functional Shopping Cart & Checkout flow**
-   **Admin Product & Category Management UI**
-   **Comprehensive Unit & Integration Tests**

### Phase 3: Operational Enhancements & Optimization
-   **Admin Order & User Management UI**
-   **Audit Logging & Basic Reporting Feature**
-   **Performance Optimization (Caching, DB indexing)**
-   **Enhanced Security Measures & Audits**
-   **End-to-End (E2E) Test Suite**
-   **Production-ready Deployment Configuration**

### Phase 4: Launch & Post-Launch
-   **Deployed E-commerce Application to Production**
-   **Monitoring & Alerting Setup**
-   **Post-launch Support & Feedback Mechanism**

## 4. High-Level Timeline & Milestones
-   **Phase 1: Foundation & Core Development (Weeks 1-8)**
    -   **Milestone 1.1:** PRD & Project Plan Finalized (End of Week 2)
    -   **Milestone 1.2:** Core Backend APIs (Auth, User, Product) Developed & Tested (End of Week 5)
    -   **Milestone 1.3:** Frontend Boilerplate Integrated with Core Backend (Product Catalog, Auth UI) (End of Week 8)
-   **Phase 2: MVP Feature Expansion & Admin (Weeks 9-16)**
    -   **Milestone 2.1:** Shopping Cart & Checkout Flow Complete (End of Week 12)
    -   **Milestone 2.2:** Admin Product Management Feature Complete (End of Week 14)
    -   **Milestone 2.3:** MVP User Stories Complete & Initial Testing (End of Week 16)
-   **Phase 3: Operational Enhancements & Optimization (Weeks 17-24)**
    -   **Milestone 3.1:** Admin Order & User Management Complete (End of Week 20)
    -   **Milestone 3.2:** Audit Logging & Reporting Tools (End of Week 22)
    -   **Milestone 3.3:** Performance Tuning, Security Audit, E2E Testing (End of Week 24)
-   **Phase 4: Launch & Post-Launch (Week 25 onwards)**
    -   **Milestone 4.1:** Production Deployment (End of Week 25)
    -   **Milestone 4.2:** Post-Launch Monitoring & Feedback Loop (Ongoing)

## 5. Resource Plan Summary
-   **Product Management:** 1 x io8Product Manager (this agent)
-   **Analysis:** 1 x io8Analyst
-   **Architecture:** 1 x io8Architect
-   **Development:** 1-2 x io8CoderMaster (full-stack developers for frontend & backend)
-   **DevOps/Infrastructure:** 1 x io8DevOps (for AWS setup, CI/CD, monitoring)
-   **Testing:** Integrated within development roles, supported by automated testing.

## 6. Risk Management Summary
Key risks and mitigation strategies include:
-   **Integration Complexity:** mitigated by clear API contracts, incremental integration, and dedicated testing.
-   **Security Vulnerabilities:** addressed by strict adherence to NFRs, secure coding practices, regular audits, and third-party payment gateway.
-   **Performance Bottlenecks:** managed through caching, database indexing, horizontal scaling, and asynchronous processing.
-   **Scope Creep:** controlled by strict MVP definition, rigorous prioritization, and transparent communication.
-   **Third-Party Dependency Issues:** mitigated by selecting reputable providers, robust error handling, and monitoring.

## 7. Communication Plan Summary
-   **Daily Stand-ups (internal team):** Brief updates on progress, blockers, next steps.
-   **Bi-weekly Sprint Reviews (with stakeholders):** Demo features, gather feedback.
-   **Weekly Stakeholder Sync:** Progress updates, discuss risks/decisions, align on priorities.
-   **Documentation:** All key decisions, requirements, and technical specifications documented in `.sureai/` folder.
-   **Version Control:** All code changes managed via Git (GitHub) with clear commit messages and PRs.



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## PROJECT PLAN UPDATE - 2025-10-15 12:42:20

## 2. Project Scope (Updated: 2025-10-15)
### Detailed Scope Components
-   **Frontend (Angular Clarity):** Comprehensive customer-facing features (product catalog with advanced search/filter, shopping cart, secure multi-step checkout, user authentication, profile/address management, order history & tracking) and a dedicated, role-protected administrator interface for managing products, categories, orders, and users, all adhering to the Clarity Design System and responsive principles.
-   **Backend (Python Django with DRF):** Implementation of a **Layered Monolithic Architecture**, providing robust RESTful APIs for all frontend functionalities. This includes secure authentication (JWT with refresh tokens), granular authorization (RBAC), data persistence (PostgreSQL with an optimized schema and indexing strategy), comprehensive audit logging for administrative actions, and efficient caching (Redis) for performance. The project will heavily leverage Django's powerful built-in Admin for accelerating the development of core administrative CRUD operations.
-   **Infrastructure:** Full Docker containerization for both frontend and backend applications, coupled with a robust CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) for automated testing, Docker image building (to AWS ECR), and automated deployment to a scalable AWS environment (EC2/ECS Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, S3/CloudFront, ALB, SES). Monitoring and logging will be handled by AWS CloudWatch and X-Ray, with secrets managed via AWS Secrets Manager.

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## 3. Key Deliverables (Updated: 2025-10-15)
### Phase 1: Foundation & Core Development (Refinement)
-   **Core Backend APIs (Django/DRF):** Fully functional and tested APIs for User Authentication (registration, login, JWT), User Profile Management, Product Catalog browsing and details (read-only), and Category management (read-only). This includes initial PostgreSQL schema, Django ORM setup, and basic Redis caching.
-   **Frontend Integration with Core Backend:** Angular components for public product catalog display, basic search/filter, and user authentication UI (login/register forms) fully integrated and communicating with the core backend APIs.
-   **Infrastructure Provisioning:** Initial AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2 instances, RDS PostgreSQL, S3 bucket) provisioned via Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation) and Dockerized applications runnable via Docker Compose locally for development.
-   **Basic CI/CD Pipeline:** Configured with automated build and unit/integration tests for core frontend and backend components.

### Phase 2: MVP Feature Expansion & Admin (Refinement)
-   **Functional Shopping Cart & Checkout Flow:** Complete implementation of add-to-cart, cart management, multi-step checkout process with shipping address selection, and secure integration with a third-party PCI DSS compliant payment gateway. Includes order confirmation notifications.
-   **Admin Product & Category Management UI:** Full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) functionality for products and categories implemented in the Admin panel, leveraging Django Admin and custom Angular components, including image upload capabilities.
-   **Comprehensive Unit & Integration Tests:** Expanded test suite covering all MVP functional requirements for both frontend and backend.

### Phase 3: Operational Enhancements & Optimization (Refinement)
-   **Admin Order & User Management UI:** Full functionality for administrators to view, filter, search, update order statuses, manage customer accounts (view, edit, assign roles), and review user profiles through the Admin panel.
-   **Audit Logging & Basic Reporting Feature:** Fully functional audit logging mechanism for all critical administrative actions (per NFR-006) with an accessible viewer in the Admin panel. Basic sales and inventory reports.
-   **Performance Optimization:** Extensive performance tuning efforts including advanced database indexing, query optimization, fine-tuned Redis caching strategies with cache invalidation, and initial load testing to ensure API response times and page load speeds meet NFRs.
-   **Enhanced Security Measures:** Implementation of JWT refresh tokens, rate limiting on critical endpoints, Content Security Policy (CSP), and a comprehensive security audit against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
-   **End-to-End (E2E) Test Suite:** Development and execution of a robust E2E test suite covering critical user journeys and administrative workflows to ensure system stability and correctness.
-   **Production-ready Deployment Configuration:** Finalization of AWS deployment strategy including ALB, auto-scaling groups, advanced monitoring (CloudWatch, X-Ray), and secure secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager).

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## 6. Risk Management Summary (Updated: 2025-10-15)
-   **Integration Complexity (High):** Mitigated by meticulously defined API contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger), incremental integration strategies, dedicated integration testing phases, and leveraging robust frameworks (Angular, Django/DRF) with proven integration patterns. Explicit choice of Django backend streamlines backend-frontend interaction logic.
-   **Security Vulnerabilities (High):** Addressed through a multi-layered security approach: strict adherence to NFR-002, secure coding practices, regular security audits, leveraging built-in security features of Django/DRF, implementing JWT refresh, rate limiting, CSP, OWASP Top 10 protections, and critically, strict reliance on a PCI DSS compliant third-party payment gateway to completely offload sensitive card data handling.
-   **Performance Bottlenecks (Medium):** Managed proactively through early implementation of Redis caching (with clear invalidation), optimized PostgreSQL database indexing and query tuning, architecture designed for horizontal scaling of backend services, asynchronous processing of background tasks (Celery), and deployment behind an AWS Application Load Balancer. Regular performance testing will validate solutions.
-   **Scope Creep (Medium):** Controlled by a rigorous adherence to the MVP definition outlined in the PRD, continuous and transparent prioritization processes, frequent communication with stakeholders to manage expectations, and a "parking lot" approach for deferring out-of-scope ideas to future iterations.
-   **Third-Party Dependency Issues (Medium):** Mitigated by careful selection of reputable third-party providers (e.g., payment gateways, email services), implementing robust error handling and fallback mechanisms within the application, and establishing continuous monitoring of third-party service statuses to ensure timely response to outages.
-   **User Adoption (Medium):** Addressed by prioritizing a highly intuitive and responsive UI/UX (leveraging Clarity Design System), engaging in early and continuous user feedback loops, providing clear onboarding and in-app guidance, and ensuring high system reliability and performance to foster a positive user experience.

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## 7. Communication Plan Summary (Updated: 2025-10-15)
-   **Documentation:** All key decisions, product requirements, architectural designs, technical specifications, and API contracts (via OpenAPI/Swagger) will be meticulously documented and version-controlled within the `.sureai/` folder and the codebase. This ensures clarity, knowledge transfer, and a single source of truth for the project. Regular updates will be provided to keep documentation current with development progress.

