Week 8 - 16.May.2026

Progress: Profile Consolidation, Follows, Stories & Messaging

This week unified profile handling into the user module and expanded the social side of the platform with follows, stories, and direct messaging.

Profile consolidation

• Migrated student and employer profile functionality into a unified Profile module with shared DTOs, services, and controllers, removing redundant modules and entities.
• Added reusable BaseModal and ProfileModal components for viewing user details.
• Added Pinia stores for posts and profiles to centralize state management.

Social graph & content

• Added the follows module (follow/unfollow, follower/following queries, REST endpoints).
• Added the stories module with creation, retrieval, deletion, and media upload, plus AddStoryModal, StoryViewerModal, a dynamic StoryStrip, and a story Pinia store.
• Added the messages module with a messaging entity, contact retrieval, and chat history, surfaced through a MessagesSection.

Other improvements

• Stored the user role in the session and included it in the authenticated guard for role-based access.
• Added semantic AI match-score breakdowns, interactive feed filters, a PDF resume generator, and backend throttler/rate-limiter security.
• Persisted the user-selected locale in localStorage.
• Added drag-and-drop logo upload to the employer setup; began identity verification with student ID-card upload to admin.

Challenge

Consolidating the previously separate student and employer profile code into one unified Profile module — while deleting redundant modules and entities — risked breaking existing flows, so the refactor had to be done carefully. At the same time, building out the social graph (follows), ephemeral stories with media upload, and real-time direct messaging meant designing several new, interrelated features and Pinia stores without destabilizing the rest of the app.

Commits this week (selection)

• Migrate student/employer profile functionality into a unified Profile module.
• Add follows module / stories module / messages module.
• Add Pinia stores for posts and profiles; add BaseModal and ProfileModal.
• Implement semantic AI match-score breakdowns and backend rate limiter.
• update student registration including upload id card to admin.