1 Startup Series: Connecting my Admin frontend to the backend

Published on Feb 16th, 2023 My solar e nergy startup platform FasoLara has reached a new milestone recently and I decided to start a new blog series about it! The project management platform has been a long journey since I published my first commit to GitHub in October 2020. What started based on a simple idea quickly became a behemoth of a software engineering project for my beginner programmer skills. I have poured thousands of hours into research, tutorials and coding to figure out how to put something like this together. Since then, I have made multiple changes to the FasoLara repository. The platform is currently open source, but I am using a private fork to publish the 3 different components to the Vercel platform. I had a basic demo of the admin dashboard with 6 pages before I removed all the sample data, then upgraded everything to the app directory in NextJS 13 and connected the dashboard to the backend server featuring Apollo GraphQL server v4. Yesterday, February 15th, 2023, I added Next-Auth to handle authentication. Initial testing of the next-auth version seems to work with the appDir in Next.JS 13. It is far from the login experience that I want. It will take more effort to iron out the details because proper documentation is still rare Lots of testing needs to be done Although I have successfully connected the Cypress testing framework to the frontend app, I have yet to do the same on the admin app. I am managing a lot of complexity with lots of new packages. Every mistake under the sun I have lost count of how many times I made breaking changes to the code base trying to implement new features on the main branch only to hard reset the branch after tens of hours of work that I could have done on a new branch instead. I can say that I am moving fast and breaking things per facebook's motto! Mobile app on the backburner I have 3 sample pages that I made on the mobile application. I would have liked to have at least a fully functional landing page on th