JTech App Store

A prototype community app marketplace for the frum / kosher-tech community — built for JTech. Developers submit apps, a JTech admin reviews them, and the community browses, downloads, and reviews the approved ones.

⚠️ Prototype only. This is a front-end demo. There is no real backend — no real accounts, downloads, payments, or server. All data lives in your browser (IndexedDB) and is seeded with mock content. "Downloading" an app only bumps a counter and adds it to a local library.

🔗 Live demo

https://shalom-karr.github.io/JTech-Appstore/

🚀 Try it

Authentication is fully simulated — there are no passwords. Log in by entering one of the demo usernames below, or just press the Instant demo login button to sign in as you.

Account	Role	Notes
you	Developer	The bundled demo developer — used by the instant-login button
jtech_admin	Admin	Access to the review queue and admin dashboard
moshe_codes	Developer	Sample community developer
shaindy_dev	Developer	Sample community developer
dovid_apps	Developer	Sample community developer
tova_builds	Developer	Sample community developer

You can also create a new account from the sign-up page — it just makes another local profile. Use Reset demo data on the admin dashboard to wipe the in-browser database and re-seed it.

✨ Features

• Home — featured apps, category tiles, and store stats.
• Browse — full-text search plus filters for category, platform, and price (free / paid), with sorting.
• App detail — screenshots with a lightbox, star reviews, download button, and a report form.
• Submit / Edit app — developers submit a new app or edit an existing one (editing re-submits it for review).
• My Library — apps the signed-in user has downloaded.
• Profile — the developer's own profile plus the apps they've submitted, with per-app status.
• Developer page — a public page for any developer and their published apps.
• Admin review queue — pending submissions to approve or reject (with written feedback), plus suspend / feature controls, open reports, and a data reset.
• Login / Signup — dummy auth with an instant demo-login shortcut.
• About — what the project is.
• 10 community-oriented categories: Torah & Learning, Tefilla & Davening, Zmanim & Luach, Kids & Chinuch, Tzedakah & Chesed, Kosher & Kashrus, Jewish Music, Productivity, Community, Games & Fun.
• Responsive layout with a bottom tab navigation bar on small screens.

🔄 The review workflow

Every app moves through a submission → review → publish lifecycle:

1. A developer submits an app. It is created with status pending and enters the admin review queue.
2. A JTech admin reviews it and either:
   • Approves it → status approved. The app goes live in the store and is downloadable.
   • Rejects it → status rejected, with a written rejectionReason shown to the developer.
3. An admin can suspend a live app → status suspended (pulled from the store), or feature an approved app on the home page.
4. Editing an app's content re-submits it: the status goes back to pending and it returns to the queue.

Only approved apps are visible to shoppers and downloadable.

🛠️ Tech stack

• Angular 19 — standalone components, signals, lazy-loaded routes.
• TypeScript.
• TailwindCSS v4 (via PostCSS) — JTech-branded theme: tekhelet blue #1d3a8a, gold #d4a017, Frank Ruhl Libre display font.
• Dexie / IndexedDB — in-browser persistence; the database is the data store.
• No backend, no server, no frameworks beyond Angular.

💻 Local development

npm install      # install dependencies
npm start        # dev server at http://localhost:4200/
npm run build    # production build → dist/jtech-appstore/browser

📁 Project structure

src/app/
  core/        models, db.service, store.service, auth.service, toast.service, seed-data
  shared/      navbar, footer, mobile-nav, app-card, status-badge, stars,
               empty-state, toast-host, dummy-switch, pipes
  pages/       home, browse, app-detail, submit, library, profile,
               developer, login, signup, admin, about
  app.routes.ts   lazy-loaded route table
  app.config.ts   application providers

• core/models.ts — domain types (Profile, AppItem, Review, Install, Report) and the category catalog.
• core/db.service.ts — the Dexie/IndexedDB layer.
• core/store.service.ts — signal-mirror store over Dexie; the only thing components read and mutate.
• core/auth.service.ts — dummy authentication.

See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for a technical breakdown.

🌐 Deployment

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. A GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/deploy.yml) builds the app and deploys it automatically on every push to the main branch — no manual steps required.

📜 Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

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Built by Shalom Karr (https://shalomkarr.pages.dev)