Comment queries and edit mutations in the feature request system in GSOC’20

Sometimes we are not able to express all our thoughts and ideas in one go. A great idea may strike later or you may want to comment and give some suggestions and feedback to stories of other users. Come explore with me some exciting features that I added to our feature request system using Strapi , GraphQL and React this week.

What did I do this week?

A strange bug starts the week with some thrill and action. Our whole application breaks when a user logs in to the system and submits a new user story. Crash!

We were checking and dividing our user stories on our client side according to their current status. No status gets assigned by default to a new user story as that is an admin or root level permission feature. In Strapi I cannot assign a default status to a relation type field because relations between models can be of various types. I solved the bug on the client side by assigning every new user story a status of “Under Consideration” in my GraphQL mutation.

A user may want to check out their own stories at some point of time so I implemented a GraphQL query to fetch all user stories based on their user id. Users need to be authenticated to access their own stories. They can check their stories for status updates, votes, likes and comments from other users.

The next was the most awaited feature of allowing our beloved users to edit their own user stories. However, they cannot change the already added description. Content can just be added to the existing information. This is just to avoid trolls. :P

What is coming up next?

This week I will create a product model so that we can relate all our products at EOS Design System with a separate user story system. Users can filter their stories for different products.

I am also working on user comments system so that we can display all comments properly and further allow users to add more comments.

Did I get stuck anywhere?

Development without getting stuck is no fun. We learn fast from our mistakes. Initially I was happy to complete the edit story functionality and it worked well. Then my mentors could hack into the system easily. Security compromised. :P

They could edit stories of other users as well after writing into the famous localStorage . I solved the bug easily by implementing a function to verify and allow editing only if the user is the owner of the story.

This ended the week on a sweet note with quite some features added. Stay tuned for more fun and action. :)