Design-Based Research Capstone

Slack Messaging Platform Capstone

A Design-Based Research capstone building a Slack-style messaging platform using pages-tracking for the frontend and spring-tracking for the backend — featuring real-time chat, message threading, admin controls, and AI-powered task extraction.

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Project Leads Anvay Vahia, Mihir Bapat, Yash Parikh

Slack Messaging Platform

Recreating Slack with Spring Boot + Flask Socket.IO

✓ Create/join channels with real-time Socket.IO message delivery

✓ Reply-to-message threading with contextual inline previews

✓ AI-powered task extraction from channel conversations (Claude API)

✓ Admin moderation: delete messages, lock channels, manage roles

✓ JWT cookie auth across Spring backend and Flask Socket.IO layer

✓ Deployed to messaging.opencodingsociety.com

Spring Boot 3.5 / Java 21 Flask Socket.IO Jekyll + Static JS Claude API (Anthropic) Amazon S3 / Aurora JWT Cookie Auth GitHub Actions CI/CD

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A full-stack Slack-style messaging platform targeting messaging.opencodingsociety.com. The frontend (pages-tracking Jekyll) provides a channel sidebar, message timeline, and composer wired to Spring REST APIs via shared config.js auth cookies. Flask Socket.IO handles low-latency live message fanout while Spring Boot remains the source of truth for persistence and permissions. Message threading, AI task extraction via Claude API, and admin moderation round out the feature set.

Impact

Users send and receive messages in real-time channels

Threaded replies preserve conversation context

AI auto-extracts and tracks action items per user

Admins moderate content and manage channel permissions

Platform deployed and accessible at messaging.opencodingsociety.com

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Project Leads Anvay Vahia, Mihir Bapat, Yash Parikh

AI-Powered Task List Integration

Surfacing Action Items Without Manual Tracking

✓ Claude API reads channel messages and detects action items

✓ Personal task list per user with due dates and assignments

✓ Real-time task_assigned socket event with toast notifications

✓ Task status toggle: PENDING → IN_PROGRESS → DONE

✓ Admin channel-level task overview with reassign and delete

✓ All endpoints protected by JWT cookie auth

Claude API (Anthropic) Spring Boot TaskService Spring Task Entity / JPA Socket.IO (task_assigned) Jekyll JS Task Panel JWT Cookie Auth

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An AI layer integrated into the messaging platform that reads channel conversations and automatically generates, updates, and surfaces task lists for users. A Spring TaskService sends batched messages to Claude API using a structured prompt contract, extracts JSON task objects, and persists them in a Task entity. A task panel UI sits alongside the chat timeline and updates live via Socket.IO task_assigned events. Admins can view, reassign, and delete tasks across all users in a channel.

Impact

Action items no longer buried in conversation history

Tasks auto-assigned and traceable to source message

Users notified in real-time when new tasks are detected

Admins can manage all tasks across a channel

No tasks leak across users — strict per-user visibility

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