Week 4 - 18.April.2026

Progress: User Profiles & Site Navigation

This week introduced shared site navigation and the first role-aware user/profile domain models on the backend.

What was done

• Added Navbar and Footer components to establish a consistent site layout.
• Implemented the user module with separate profile handling for the employer and student roles.
• Refactored shared backend code into a common folder for reuse across modules.
• Added supporting backend dependencies and updated the lockfile.

Outcome

The backend now distinguishes student and employer profiles at the data level, and the frontend has reusable navigation chrome.

Challenge

The challenge was modeling two fundamentally different user types — students and employers — within one coherent user domain. Deciding how much profile logic to share versus separate, and refactoring common code into a reusable folder without creating a tangled dependency graph, took careful design so the model could grow cleanly later.

Commits this week

• Add Navbar and Footer components to enhance site layout.
• implement user module and profile for employer and student module separated.
• refactor common folder location.
• Add backend dependencies and update package-lock.json.