Week 1 - 21.March.2026

Progress: Project Kickoff — Monorepo & Scaffolding

The first week established the foundation of the Student Part-Time Job Portal by setting up a workspace-based monorepo and scaffolding the backend and frontend applications, plus the documentation book itself.

What was done

• Initialized a workspace-based monorepo using npm, configuring the root package.json to manage backend and frontend as separate workspaces.
• Scaffolded the backend as a NestJS application under backend/ (controllers, modules, services, nest-cli.json, tsconfig.json, eslint.config.mjs).
• Scaffolded the frontend as a Vue.js + Vite application under frontend/.
• Added convenience scripts in the root package.json to start both services.
• Added the progress_book mdBook documentation with its initial chapter and book.toml configuration.

Project structure at the end of the week

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├── backend/            # NestJS API
├── frontend/           # Vue.js + Vite frontend
├── progress_book/      # Documentation (mdBook)
├── package.json        # Root workspace configuration
└── node_modules/       # Shared dependencies

Challenge

The main challenge was establishing a clean monorepo structure that lets the NestJS backend and the Vue + Vite frontend live side by side while sharing a single dependency tree. Getting the workspace configuration, scripts, and tooling to cooperate — without the two stacks stepping on each other — set the tone for the rest of the project.

Commits this week

• Init project with backend and frontend as Monorepo.
• Add progress book documentation with initial chapter and configuration.