In this section, we are going to look at the database design. We are going to have three collections; namely, user, thread and message. Any visitor to our forum will be able to view the threads and replies. But they cannot post a reply or create a thread or like a reply/thread till they log in. The user collection will have the following schema:
- Name: User's full name.
- Email: User's email address.
- Password: User's login password.
- Role: Will have two values, user and admin. The default value is user.
The thread collection will have the following schema:
- Title: The title of the thread.
- Description: The description of the thread.
- Tags: The searchable tags for the thread.
- Is Pinned: The boolean values that pins this thread ...
