1.0.0-beta1

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🚀 Refactor Platform v1.0.0-beta1

First Public Beta Release

We're excited to announce the first public beta release of the Refactor Coaching & Mentorship Platform! This Rust-based backend provides a comprehensive web API for coaching and mentoring software engineers, designed for professional coaches, informal mentors, and engineering leaders.

🎯 What's New

🏗️ Core Platform Architecture

• Layered Architecture: Clean separation between web, domain, entity API, and data layers
• Domain-Driven Design: Business logic centralized in the domain layer with clear entity relationships
• Repository Pattern: Abstracted database operations through the entity API layer
• RESTful API: Comprehensive HTTP API with OpenAPI documentation

👥 User Management & Authentication

• Session-based Authentication: Secure cookie-based user sessions with axum-login
• Role-based Access Control: Admin and user roles with granular permissions
• User Profiles: Complete user management with profile updates and password changes
• Organization Membership: Users can belong to multiple organizations

🏢 Organization Management

• Multi-tenant Architecture: Support for multiple coaching organizations
• Organization Administration: Create, update, and manage coaching organizations
• User Assignment: Add and remove users from organizations
• Hierarchical Permissions: Organization-scoped access controls

🤝 Coaching Relationship Management

• Coach-Coachee Relationships: Formal relationship tracking between coaches and coachees
• Relationship Lifecycle: Create, manage, and archive coaching relationships
• Cross-organizational Support: Relationships can span multiple organizations

📝 Coaching Session Management

• Session Tracking: Schedule and document coaching sessions
• Session Notes: Rich text note-taking with TipTap integration for collaborative editing
• Session History: Complete timeline of coaching interactions

🎯 Goal & Action Management

• Overarching Goals: Long-term objectives for coaching relationships
• Action Items: Specific, trackable commitments and next steps
• Status Tracking: Monitor progress with customizable status workflows (Not Started, In Progress, Completed, Won't Do)
• Due Date Management: Time-bound action items with deadline tracking

📋 Agreements & Documentation

• Coaching Agreements: Formal agreements and contracts management
• Document Lifecycle: Create, update, and manage coaching documentation
• Structured Data: Consistent data models across all coaching artifacts

🔗 External Integrations

• TipTap Cloud: Real-time collaborative document editing
• JWT Token Generation: Secure token-based authentication for external services
• API Versioning: Built-in support for API evolution and backward compatibility

🛠️ Technical Highlights

🦀 Modern Rust Stack

• Axum Web Framework: High-performance async web server
• SeaORM: Type-safe database operations with PostgreSQL
• Tokio Runtime: Efficient async/await concurrency
• UUID-based IDs: Globally unique identifiers for all entities

📊 Database & Migrations

• PostgreSQL Backend: Robust relational database with full ACID compliance
• Schema Migrations: Versioned database schema with rollback support
• Connection Pooling: Efficient database connection management
• SSL Support: Secure database connections for production environments

🚀 Production-Ready Deployment

• Docker Containerization: Multi-stage builds for optimized container images
• Docker Compose: Complete local development and production deployment setup
• Health Checks: Built-in health monitoring and service dependencies
• Environment Configuration: Comprehensive environment variable management

🔒 Security Features

• HTTPS/TLS: Secure communication with SSL certificate management
• CORS Configuration: Configurable cross-origin resource sharing
• Input Validation: Comprehensive request validation and sanitization
• Error Handling: Structured error responses with proper HTTP status codes

📚 API Documentation

• OpenAPI/Swagger: Auto-generated API documentation with RapiDoc
• Type Safety: Full TypeScript-compatible API schemas
• Interactive Documentation: Built-in API explorer and testing interface

🔧 Development Experience

• Hot Reload: Fast development iteration with cargo watch
• Database Seeding: Test data generation for development
• Comprehensive Logging: Structured logging with configurable levels
• Debug Tools: Built-in debugging and diagnostic endpoints

🚀 Deployment & Infrastructure

☁️ Cloud-Ready Architecture

• DigitalOcean Integration: Automated deployment to DigitalOcean infrastructure
• Tailscale Networking: Secure private networking for deployments
• GitHub Actions: Automated CI/CD with comprehensive testing
• Multi-Environment Support: Separate staging and production environments

🐳 Container Orchestration

• Multi-Service Setup: Coordinated deployment of backend, frontend, and database
• Nginx Reverse Proxy: Load balancing and SSL termination
• Database Migrations: Automated schema migrations on deployment
• Environment Variables: Comprehensive configuration management

📖 Documentation

This release includes comprehensive documentation:

• Architecture Diagrams: Visual system overview and component relationships
• API Documentation: Complete endpoint reference with examples
• Deployment Guides: Step-by-step deployment instructions
• Development Setup: Local development environment configuration
• Database Schema: Entity-relationship diagrams and migration guides

🧪 What's Beta About This Release

This beta release is feature-complete for core coaching workflows but may have:

• Minor API changes before v1.0.0 stable
• Additional configuration options and fine-tuning
• Performance optimizations based on real-world usage
• Extended test coverage and edge case handling

🔮 What's Next

Looking ahead to v1.0.0 stable:

• Enhanced Reporting: Analytics and progress tracking dashboards
• Notification System: Email and in-app notifications for important events
• Advanced Permissions: Fine-grained access controls and custom roles
• Foundational Security Enhancements: It's a new platform, so we'll be working to make it increasingly secure

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Docker & Docker Compose
• PostgreSQL (local or remote)
• Rust 1.70+ (for local development)

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/refactor-group/refactor-platform-rs.git
cd refactor-platform-rs
docker-compose --env-file .env.local up --build

Visit http://localhost:4000/rapidoc for interactive API documentation.

Configuration

All configuration is managed through environment variables. See our Environment Variables Guide for complete configuration options.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our contributing guidelines and check out our good first issues.

📞 Support

• Documentation: docs/
• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/refactor-group/refactor-platform-rs/commits/1.0.0-beta1

This beta release represents months of development creating a robust, scalable platform for coaching and mentoring software engineers. We're excited to get feedback from the community as we work toward our stable 1.0.0 release!

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