feat: implement daily activities system for student progress tracking

[karthikeya1976]

Activities Feature — Project Status Report

Overview

Designed and completed a full daily activities system across backend, middleware, database, and frontend. The feature now tracks student chess milestones, updates activity completion in real time, refreshes the UI live, auto-generates activities for new users, and resets activities daily through a scheduler.

Key Work Completed

Backend (Chess Server)

Added milestone tracking for attendance, rook capture, castling, and match completion
Triggered completeActivity socket events when activities are completed
Connected activity completion flow to middleware using API helper functions

Middleware + Database

Built /activities/:username route for fetching and updating activities
Added automatic 4-activity creation for all new student accounts
Implemented midnight scheduler to reset activities daily with fresh randomized tasks
Created reusable activity selection utilities for routes and scheduler

Frontend (React)

Developed ActivitiesModal with activity progress tracking and garden-themed UI
Added live refresh so activity completion updates instantly without reopening the modal
Fixed socket callback handling and modal interaction issues for smoother UX
Testing Summary

Performed end-to-end validation across socket events, API routes, MongoDB updates, UI rendering, new-user registration, and scheduler execution.

Result

All 10 test cases passed successfully. The activities system is fully working end-to-end, including real-time completion tracking, frontend updates, automatic user setup, and daily activity reset.

[Saritahimthani]

Please resolve the conflicts once.

thanks

[Saritahimthani]

Looks good to me, tested the flow.