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Juan Carlos Padillo
Juan Carlos Padillo

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Building a Laravel Team Task Manager from Scratch (Planning & System Design)

Hello, I’m starting a new project to improve my backend development skills using Laravel.

The goal is to build a Team Task Management System that simulates real-world collaboration, similar to tools like Trello or Asana, but simplified and focused on learning backend architecture.

This post is the first in a series where I’ll document the entire development process, from planning to deployment.

Project Goal

The system allows:

  • Users and Teams
  • Projects inside teams
  • Tasks inside projects
  • Task assignments, comments, and attachments
  • Notifications for updates

Why am I Building This

I want to go beyond the CRUD basic apps and focus on real-world backend concepts like:

  • Eloquent relationships
  • Policies and authorization
  • REST API design
  • Service classes
  • Queues and notifications

High-level idea

  • A user joins a team via invitation
  • Teams manage multiple projects
  • Projects contain tasks
  • Tasks can be assigned, discussed, and tracked

Database planning

  • users
  • teams
  • team_user
  • invitations
  • projects
  • tasks
  • task_user
  • comments
  • attachments
  • notifications

Next step

  • Laravel Breeze setup
  • Database migrations
  • Team and user relationships

That's it for the planning phase. See you in my next blog post!

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