marketplaces/docs/PROJECT_INDEX.md

Marketplace Platform — Documentation Index

This is the entry point. Read this first — it links to everything else and tells you what's actually true right now versus what's historical.

What this is

A configuration-driven, multi-tenant SaaS marketplace platform (Angular 21.1, standalone components). One frontend codebase serves unlimited tenants ("marketplaces"). Tenant identity, theme, navigation, page/section/widget composition, and static content all resolve from a per-tenant bootstrap.json fetched at runtime — no tenant-specific code paths exist in the frontend. New tenants are onboarded by domain + config + backend data, never by forking the frontend.

Every tenant has three surfaces on this one codebase:

• Website — the public storefront (catalog, product pages, cart, static pages).
• Builder (Project Editor, /edit/**) — an in-app editor that edits the tenant's BootstrapConfig.
• Backoffice (Admin, /:lang/backoffice/**) — the admin area: products, categories (live-wired to a real gateway), orders, transactions, users, monitoring, analytics, media.

System overview

• Architecture: Component (container) → Facade → Domain Service → Repository/Provider (DI token, swappable mock↔API) → Mock | API. Enforced by npm run arch:check (import boundaries + circular deps), not just convention. Full detail: ARCHITECTURE.md, governance docs at docs/architecture/foundation/** (11 ADRs + 9 standards docs).
• Seller Management (optional, not built): typed foundation only — modules.sellerManagement.enabled gate on BootstrapConfig, disabled by default, zero effect on existing marketplaces. See ADR-011 and docs/architecture/foundation/Seller-Management-Diagrams.md.
• State: Signals-based facades everywhere, no NgRx (ADR-007).
• Rendering: Bootstrap JSON → Section Engine → Page Renderer → Widget Host → registered widget component (ADR-005). 100% lazy-loaded routes.
• Theming: CSS custom properties per tenant, 3 theme stylesheets, never hardcoded hex in a component (ADR-008). Design system spec: DESIGN.md (root of repo).
• i18n: 3 locales (en/ru/hy), compile-time-enforced key parity across locale files.
• Backend: mostly PLANNED (mock gateways behind swappable provider tokens) — see BACKEND.md, the single canonical backend spec (architecture, bootstrap, auth, JWT, Ed25519, permissions, maintenance mode, error model, every endpoint, DTOs, uploads, pagination/filters/sorting, publish workflow, media, builder, implementation checklist). Categories is the one domain fully wired to a real HTTP gateway; everything else is local/mock.

Doc index (living documents)

Read these directly — they're the current source of truth, not one-off reports:

Doc	What it covers
ARCHITECTURE.md	Layered architecture, container/facade/service pattern, bootstrap/theme/widget engines, links to the enforced ADRs
BACKEND.md	The one canonical backend spec — auth, JWT, Ed25519, permissions, maintenance mode, every endpoint, DTOs, uploads, error model, migration guide, checklist
FRONTEND.md	App structure, routing, i18n, theming, state management, dynamic rendering
EDITOR.md	The Project Editor: every section, save/publish/draft/reset model
StaticPages.md	The Static Pages CMS module (the thing that actually serves About/Contacts/etc. today)
PROJECT-STRUCTURE.md	Folder-by-folder tour of src/app/** with a worked feature-add example
PROJECT_STATUS.md	Current status — completion %, readiness for demo/production/backend, honest limitations
NEXT_PHASE.md	The one roadmap — backend integration → testing → performance → monitoring → v2 ideas
TODO.md	Release blockers only — currently empty
KNOWN-ISSUES.md	Real, reproducible, currently-open frontend bugs only
PRODUCT_BACKLOG.md	Items needing a client/business decision (dark mode, brand colors, page content, etc.)
FUTURE_FEATURES.md	Nice-to-have, non-blocking future work (Angular 22, bundle splitting, etc.)
ANGULAR22_PLAN.md	Angular 22 upgrade feasibility (research only, not yet executed — tracked in FUTURE_FEATURES.md)
SALES-GUIDE.md	Plain-language guide for the sales team — what to demo, what's not live yet
../DESIGN.md	Visual design system: colors, typography, elevation, component specs
../PRODUCT.md	Product positioning, users, brand personality, anti-references
../CHANGELOG.md	Keep-a-Changelog-format history of shipped features
docs/architecture/foundation/**	Enforced ADRs (ADR-001…ADR-011) and standards docs — governance, read directly
docs/context/**	Barry Cache's own source-backed memory system — infrastructure, not project documentation, do not edit by hand
docs/archive/**	Superseded docs, kept for history only — do not implement against these

One topic, one place: routing lives in FRONTEND.md, not repeated here. Backend contract lives entirely in BACKEND.md — nowhere else. Design tokens live in DESIGN.md, not repeated elsewhere.

What's still open

TODO.md — release blockers only. PRODUCT_BACKLOG.md and FUTURE_FEATURES.md hold everything else that isn't a blocker.

Historical reports

19 one-off audit/sprint/review reports were archived, then deleted once every open finding worth keeping was confirmed merged into KNOWN-ISSUES.md/TODO.md. A 20th (FRONTEND-ROADMAP.md, despite its name a shipped-history changelog, not a forward roadmap) was archived to docs/archive/ on 2026-07-26 for the same reason. Full original text recoverable via git log --diff-filter=D -- docs/archive or docs/archive/FRONTEND-ROADMAP.md itself.

How to run it

npm install
npm run start           # ng serve
npm run start:dexar      # ng serve --configuration=development --port 4200
npm run build            # ng build
npm run build:dexar      # ng build --configuration=production
npm run arch:check       # boundary + circular-dependency checks

Barry Cache (repo memory, optional but recommended before/after non-trivial work):

npm run barry -- resume --task "<task>"
npm run barry -- validate

See root CLAUDE.md for the full Barry Cache workflow and memory policy.

Current status

Full detail (completion %, per-area readiness, known limitations): PROJECT_STATUS.md. Short version:

• Frontend: Release Candidate, feature-complete. TODO.md has no blockers.
• Backend: not implemented, fully specified. Categories is the one domain wired to a real gateway; everything else is mock. See BACKEND.md.
• Documentation: consolidated (Final Documentation Consolidation pass, 2026-07-26) — one canonical backend doc, one roadmap, one status doc, historical/sprint docs moved to docs/archive/.
• First client demo: ready, with one caveat — admin role enforcement doesn't exist yet, see PROJECT_STATUS.md.

Draft/publish for the Project Editor is still frontend-only (localStorage), no backend persistence — the single largest backend gap, see BACKEND.md §1 (Bootstrap: Draft vs Published) and §8 (Real Backend Implementation Guide).