# 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 - 2025-10-02 06:17:31

## Project Plan

### Generated: 2025-10-02T[CURRENT_TIMESTAMP]

## 1. Project Phases

**Phase 1: Minimum Viable Product (MVP) - Core Features**
*   **Objective:** Deliver a fully functional and secure note-taking application with user authentication and core CRUD capabilities.
*   **Duration:** Estimated 4-6 Sprints.

**Phase 2: Enhanced Features**
*   **Objective:** Implement advanced organizational and editing features, including search, filter, rich text editing, and tagging.
*   **Duration:** Estimated 4-6 Sprints.

## 2. Key Milestones

*   **M1.1 (Phase 1): Backend Authentication API Complete**
*   **M1.2 (Phase 1): Frontend Authentication UI/Integration Complete**
*   **M1.3 (Phase 1): Backend Notes CRUD API Complete**
*   **M1.4 (Phase 1): Frontend Notes CRUD UI/Integration Complete**
*   **M1.5 (Phase 1): End-to-End MVP Tested & Ready**
*   **M2.1 (Phase 2): Backend Search/Filter/Tagging API Complete (Initial)**
*   **M2.2 (Phase 2): Frontend Search/Filter/Tagging UI/Integration Complete**
*   **M2.3 (Phase 2): End-to-End Enhanced Features Tested & Ready**

## 3. High-Level Task Breakdown

**Phase 1: MVP - Core Features**
*   **User Authentication (Backend):** Implement user model, registration, login, JWT generation, password hashing.
*   **User Authentication (Frontend):** Create Angular Auth Module, login/register forms, integrate with backend API, implement Auth Guards.
*   **Notes CRUD (Backend):** Implement Note model, API endpoints for create, read (list/detail), update, delete, ensure user ownership.
*   **Notes CRUD (Frontend):** Create Angular Notes Module, components for notes list, note detail, note editor (basic), integrate with Notes API.
*   **UI Integration & Polish:** Ensure seamless user flow, error handling, and adherence to Clarity Design System.
*   **Testing:** Unit and integration tests for Auth and Notes CRUD functionalities.

**Phase 2: Enhanced Features**
*   **Search & Filter (Backend):** Extend Notes API with search capabilities (keyword, title/content), filter by tags, and date ranges.
*   **Search & Filter (Frontend):** Implement search bar, filter dropdowns (tags, dates), update notes list display logic.
*   **Rich Text Editing (Backend):** Adapt Note content storage to handle rich text (e.g., HTML/Markdown), ensure sanitization.
*   **Rich Text Editing (Frontend):** Integrate a rich text editor component (`@ckeditor/ckeditor5-angular`) into the Note Editor.
*   **Tagging System (Backend):** Implement Tag model, Note_Tag join table, API for adding/removing tags on notes, user-specific tag management.
*   **Tagging System (Frontend):** Create components for tag input, tag display (e.g., Clarity labels), integrate with Notes/Tags API.
*   **Comprehensive Testing:** Ensure all new features are fully tested, integrated, and performant.

## 4. Resource Allocation (Conceptual)
*   **1x Frontend Developer:** Primarily responsible for Angular development, UI/UX implementation, and API integration.
*   **1x Backend Developer:** Responsible for Python Flask API development, database schema, security, and backend logic.
*   **1x QA/Tester (Shared/Part-time):** Focused on testing functionalities, user flows, and identifying bugs across both phases. (Can be integrated within dev roles for smaller teams).


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## PROJECT PLAN UPDATE - 2025-10-02 06:20:30

# Project Plan

## Generated: 2025-10-02T06:16:00.000000

## 1. Project Phases

**Phase 1: Minimum Viable Product (MVP) - Core Features**
*   **Objective:** Deliver a fully functional and secure note-taking application with user authentication and core CRUD capabilities.
*   **Duration:** Estimated 4-6 Sprints.

**Phase 2: Enhanced Features**
*   **Objective:** Implement advanced organizational and editing features, including search, filter, rich text editing, and tagging.
*   **Duration:** Estimated 4-6 Sprints.

## 2. Key Milestones

*   **M1.1 (Phase 1): Backend Authentication API Complete**
*   **M1.2 (Phase 1): Frontend Authentication UI/Integration Complete**
*   **M1.3 (Phase 1): Backend Notes CRUD API Complete**
*   **M1.4 (Phase 1): Frontend Notes CRUD UI/Integration Complete**
*   **M1.5 (Phase 1): End-to-End MVP Tested & Ready**
*   **M2.1 (Phase 2): Backend Search/Filter/Tagging API Complete (Initial)**
*   **M2.2 (Phase 2): Frontend Search/Filter/Tagging UI/Integration Complete**
*   **M2.3 (Phase 2): End-to-End Enhanced Features Tested & Ready

## 3. High-Level Task Breakdown

**Phase 1: MVP - Core Features**
*   **User Authentication (Backend):** Implement user model, registration, login, JWT generation, password hashing.
*   **User Authentication (Frontend):** Create Angular Auth Module, login/register forms, integrate with backend API, implement Auth Guards.
*   **Notes CRUD (Backend):** Implement Note model, API endpoints for create, read (list/detail), update, delete, ensure user ownership.
*   **Notes CRUD (Frontend):** Create Angular Notes Module, components for notes list, note detail, note editor (basic), integrate with Notes API.
*   **UI Integration & Polish:** Ensure seamless user flow, error handling, and adherence to Clarity Design System.
*   **Testing:** Unit and integration tests for Auth and Notes CRUD functionalities.

**Phase 2: Enhanced Features**
*   **Search & Filter (Backend):** Extend Notes API with search capabilities (keyword, title/content), filter by tags, and date ranges.
*   **Search & Filter (Frontend):** Implement search bar, filter dropdowns (tags, dates), update notes list display logic.
*   **Rich Text Editing (Backend):** Adapt Note content storage to handle rich text (e.g., HTML/Markdown), ensure sanitization.
*   **Rich Text Editing (Frontend):** Integrate a rich text editor component (`@ckeditor/ckeditor5-angular`) into the Note Editor.
*   **Tagging System (Backend):** Implement Tag model, Note_Tag join table, API for adding/removing tags on notes, user-specific tag management.
*   **Tagging System (Frontend):** Create components for tag input, tag display (e.g., Clarity labels), integrate with Notes/Tags API.
*   **Comprehensive Testing:** Ensure all new features are fully tested, integrated, and performant.

## 4. Resource Allocation (Conceptual)
*   **1x Frontend Developer:** Primarily responsible for Angular development, UI/UX implementation, and API integration.
*   **1x Backend Developer:** Responsible for Python Flask API development, database schema, security, and backend logic.
*   **1x QA/Tester (Shared/Part-time):** Focused on testing functionalities, user flows, and identifying bugs across both phases. (Can be integrated within dev roles for smaller teams).



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## PROJECT PLAN UPDATE - 2025-10-02 06:20:32

## Project Plan

## Generated: 2025-10-02T06:18:00Z

## 1. Project Phases & High-Level Timeline
This project will be executed in two distinct phases, with iterative development within each phase.

*   **Phase 1: Minimum Viable Product (MVP) - Core Notes & Authentication**
    *   **Duration:** ~4-6 Weeks (e.g., 2-3 Sprints of 2 weeks each)
    *   **Focus:** Establishing core functionality and user security (User Registration, Login, Logout, and basic CRUD operations for notes).
    *   **Milestone:** MVP Release (Target: Late October / Early November 2025)

*   **Phase 2: Enhanced Features - Advanced Note Management**
    *   **Duration:** ~6-8 Weeks (e.g., 3-4 Sprints of 2 weeks each)
    *   **Focus:** Improving user experience, organization, and expressiveness (Search, Filter, Rich Text Editing, Tagging).
    *   **Milestone:** Enhanced Features Release (Target: Mid-December 2025)

## 2. Key Milestones
*   **Milestone 1: MVP Release (End of Phase 1)**
    *   **Completion Criteria:** Full functionality for user registration, login, logout, and basic CRUD operations for notes. Secure data persistence. All `High` priority user stories (US-001 to US-008) from the PRD are implemented, tested, and accepted.
    *   **Deliverables:** Deployed frontend and backend services for MVP, database with initial schema, user authentication working, basic note management UI, passing unit/integration tests.

*   **Milestone 2: Enhanced Features Release (End of Phase 2)**
    *   **Completion Criteria:** Implementation of search, filter, rich text editing, and tagging functionalities. All `Medium` priority user stories (US-009 to US-012) from the PRD are implemented, tested, and accepted.
    *   **Deliverables:** Updated frontend and backend services with enhanced features, updated database schema for tags, comprehensive UI for advanced features, passing E2E tests, API documentation updated.

## 3. Team & Resource Allocation (High-Level)
*   **Product Manager (PM):** Drives product vision, PRD, backlog, stakeholder communication, risk management.
*   **Frontend Developers:** (e.g., 2-3) Expertise in Angular, TypeScript, Clarity Design System.
*   **Backend Developers:** (e.g., 1-2) Expertise in Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL.
*   **DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer:** (Part-time/Shared) Expertise in Docker, AWS, CI/CD setup.
*   **QA Engineer:** (Part-time/Shared) Expertise in testing (manual/automated).

## 4. Tools & Development Environment
*   **Version Control:** Git (managed via GitHub/GitLab).
*   **Project Management:** (e.g., Jira, Trello) for backlog, sprint boards, issue tracking.
*   **IDEs:** Visual Studio Code (with relevant extensions for Angular, Python, Docker).
*   **Database Management:** pgAdmin or similar client for PostgreSQL.
*   **Containerization:** Docker (Docker Compose for local development).

## 5. Communication Plan
*   **Daily Stand-ups:** Short (15 min), daily meetings for development team to synchronize, discuss progress, and identify impediments.
*   **Bi-Weekly Sprint Reviews:** Demo of completed work to stakeholders and product owner, gathering feedback for upcoming sprints.
*   **Bi-Weekly Sprint Retrospectives:** Internal team meeting at the end of each sprint to identify areas for continuous improvement in processes and collaboration.
*   **Ad-hoc Meetings:** As needed for design discussions, technical deep-dives, problem-solving, or urgent risk mitigation.
*   **Documentation:** PRD, Architecture, Tech Stack, and Project Plan documents maintained in `.sureai/` and regularly updated.

## 6. Testing Strategy
*   **Unit Testing:**
    *   **Frontend:** Karma and Jasmine for Angular components, services, and pipes, ensuring individual units function as expected.
    *   **Backend:** Pytest for Python Flask application logic, services, and utility functions.
*   **Integration Testing:**
    *   **Backend:** Pytest to verify interactions between services, data access layer, and API endpoints (e.g., database interactions).
    *   **Frontend-Backend:** Testing API calls and data flow between Angular services and Flask endpoints, ensuring correct data exchange and handling.
*   **End-to-End (E2E) Testing:** Cypress or Playwright will be used to simulate full user journeys and validate core functionalities across the entire stack, from UI interaction to backend processing and database updates.
*   **Security Testing:** Regular code reviews focusing on security vulnerabilities, static application security testing (SAST), and potentially dynamic application security testing (DAST)/penetration testing post-MVP deployment.

## 7. Deployment Strategy
*   **Containerization:** Both frontend (Angular) and backend (Flask) applications will be containerized using Docker, ensuring consistent build and runtime environments across development, staging, and production.
*   **Local Development:** Docker Compose will be utilized to orchestrate the local development environment, bringing up frontend, backend, and PostgreSQL services with a single command.
*   **CI/CD Pipeline:** A Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline (e.g., GitHub Actions or GitLab CI) will automate the following:
    *   **Code Linting & Formatting:** Ensure adherence to coding standards.
    *   **Automated Testing:** Run unit, integration, and potentially E2E tests on every code push.
    *   **Docker Image Builds:** Create and tag Docker images for frontend and backend upon successful tests.
    *   **Deployment to Staging Environment:** Automatically deploy new images to a staging environment for further testing and stakeholder review.
    *   **Deployment to Production Environment:** Implement a controlled (manual or automated with approvals) deployment process to the production environment.
*   **Hosting (Production):** AWS services will be utilized for scalable and reliable hosting. This includes EC2 instances for compute, RDS for managed PostgreSQL, ECR for Docker image registry, and potentially S3 for static frontend assets if not served directly by the web server within the container.

