PROGRESS.md

Project Progress — Social Posting Scheduler (Laravel + Vue)

Last updated: 2026-08-06

MVP Milestones

1. Setup & Foundation

• Laravel project scaffolded
• Vue frontend wired up (Breeze + Inertia)
• Meta Developer App created (Facebook Login for Business enabled)
• Test Facebook Page + Instagram Business account ready

2. Data Model

• users table
• social_accounts table (platform, page_id, ig_business_id, encrypted token, expiry)
• posts table (content, media, status, scheduled_at)
• post_targets table

3. Auth (Facebook/Instagram Connection)

• OAuth redirect flow implemented
• Short-lived → long-lived token exchange
• Fetch and store linked Instagram Business Account ID
• "Connect Account" UI + connected-state display

4. Post Creation & Scheduling

• Post creation form (caption + image upload)
• Schedule date/time picker
• Store post as "Scheduled" in DB

5. Publishing

• Scheduled Artisan command (runs every minute, finds due posts)
• Queued job: create media container
• Queued job: publish container
• Status update on success/failure + error logging

6. Dashboard / UI

• List of posts with status (Scheduled / Published / Failed)
• Manual retry for failed posts
• Basic error message display

Known Issues / Blockers

• Manual folder merge (temp-laravel → repo root) dropped resources/js/bootstrap.js — recreated manually, worth double-checking other files if similar issues appear.

Out of Scope (v2 Roadmap)

• Multi-account / multi-tenant support
• Stories, Reels, carousel posts
• Analytics dashboard
• Auto token refresh

Conventions

• Use softDeletes() on posts and social_accounts tables
• Skip created_by/updated_by for MVP (single-user); revisit if multi-user support is added in v2