starchart VS remix-saml-authentication

As per issue 105 and PR 174, we have a docker container that will act as a local IDP with a few users it recognizes that it will return SAML response claims for.

The past week, I worked on setting up basic user dashboard pages and routes for starchart. These routes involved pages for management, creation, and help for domains and certificates. The ideas was to setup a basic template, such as a heading, and the routes so these could be easily updated once the designs were finished.

I worked on domains table and created a PR with that, which is currently in review.

This week, my main focus is to work on seeding the database for Starchart project. (see PR) I thought it would be more complicated, but it's actually just writing query with Prisma to insert rows of data into database tables, and there's a bit of script setup.

My first task with porting over middleware used by Satellite and adding it to Remix's server. Remix's Blues Stack, by default, uses Morgan, but we wanted to use Pino instead. However, Pino seems to cause a problem, so David has to switch to using Winston.

Login and Logout Changing User Model after Prisma Schema change

Main work

The past week I worked on setting up Playwright, and Chakra UI with starchart. Chakra UI is needed so that their components could be used to build the web pages, and Playwright is to be used for end-to-end testing.

The one PR I created this week was initialisation of Chakra UI theme. For now it only includes shades of our "brand" color, which is well-known Seneca's red color. This color is now applied as a default one for all UI components such as Button, Checkbox etc. After several iterations of code reviews and updates from my side the PR was merged.

This week, I focus on creating an initial schema for the project through using Prisma. This is for a MySQL database, and the PR for the initial schema is here.

This week started with me pulling from the Offical SAMLIFY docs and the Remix SAML example. I got the authentication process to work but I did not add signature requirements or validation of signatures, and I was also importing the sp and idp objects and exposing them in every file where there was supposed to be some SAMLIFY logic, and I also fetched the idp xml metadata from the endpoint the simple saml php container exposes it on, I changed this in a consequent commit so that we have the file locally and read it using fs, all of this is kind of subject to change and that is the essence of the problem.

Another starting point is right there, Samlify docs. Further than that David found a perfect example for our tech stack where someone has made an example implementation of SAMLIFY with REMIX here. So taking a look at these things would be a start.