Stack Design

General

Host: Digital Ocean

Backend: Rails

DB: Something relational, probably Postgres

Frontend: Currently using Plain JS, plans to integrate Vue

Feature-Specific

Core

Payment: Out of scope. Suggest Stripe

Authentication: Locally Managed + Third Party Identity (Google + Facebook)

Reach

Document Storage: Amazon S3

Email: Mail chimp for correspondence

User Involvement: Will create log table for (time, user_id, table, column, before, after)

Messaging: Out of scope. Suggest ActionCable

Search: Out of scope. Suggest ElasticSearch