Tech4Biz Channel Partner Onboarding & Secure Asset Management

An enterprise-grade, secure, multi-tenant portal designed for onboarding channel partners, managing digital assets, and orchestrating NDA/MSA legal workflows.

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🛠️ Technology Stack

• Frontend: React (Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Axios)
• Backend: Node.js (Express, TypeScript, Prisma ORM, JWT, Helmet)
• Databases: PostgreSQL (Relational metadata storage)
• Object Storage: MinIO (Private, S3-compatible asset storage container)

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🚀 Quick Start (Development)

Prerequisites

• Ensure Docker and Node.js are installed and running.
• The startup scripts automatically detect and terminate any processes occupying backend/frontend ports to prevent crash loops.

Step 1: Start Backend, Database, & Storage

From the project root:

./run-backend.sh

This script will:

1. Spin up the Postgres and MinIO containers.
2. Generate environment variables.
3. Align the database schemas via Prisma.
4. Run database seeders (Admin/Partner mock accounts).
5. Automatically seed the MinIO bucket with static documents.
6. Free port 5000 (if in use) and launch the backend server.

Step 2: Start Frontend App

From the project root:

./run-frontend.sh

This script will resolve dependencies, free port 5173 (if in use), and launch the Vite development server on http://localhost:5173.

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📂 MinIO Seeding & Data Transfer

How Asset Seeding Works

To ensure that digital assets (like product guides and NDA templates) are transferred when cloning the repository:

1. Standard assets are committed to the minio-seed/ directory in the repository root (not ignored by Git).
2. During server start (via ./run-backend.sh), the backend runs the S3 seeder command:

   npx ts-node src/seed-minio.ts
   

3. The script initializes the secure-assets bucket in MinIO and uploads any files found in the local /minio-seed/ folder to the bucket, preserving exact filenames, MIME types, and sizes.

Manual Seeding / Restore Command

If you ever reset your MinIO volume and need to re-populate the S3 bucket with the committed repository assets, run the following commands:

cd Channel-Backend
npx ts-node src/seed-minio.ts

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🔑 Default Credentials & Admin Ports

Web Interfaces

• Frontend Dashboard: http://localhost:5173
• MinIO Console Dashboard: http://localhost:9090

Login Credentials

System	User/ID	Password/Secret
Admin Account	admin@tech4biz.com	Password123
Partner (Approved)	active-partner@partner.com	Password123
Partner (Pending NDA)	pending-onboarding@partner.com	Password123
MinIO Console	minio_admin	minio_password_2026
JWT Secrets	Auto-generated in .env	super-secret-jwt-key-2026-world-class