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What’s a viable way to achieve the above?

The system was for admins to use where they will build a survey using SurveyJS then build a templates to be filled in with answers from the survey. The tricky part is the template has to be rich text, with table support and input by a layman admin. We tried quill, then pass the html generated and the variables to handlebars to form the final output. For simple usage it’s fine but it breaks down when we render a table with dynamic rows, because we were naively wrapping .each on the table generated by quill. It’ll be very easy done if the admins were able to write proper handlebars template.

And so we believe we need to look for a rich text editor with template support. Any suggestions?

I was recently tasked to architect and develop a solution, with limited time and human resources. I was only given 3 months although I speculate the project will need minimum 6 months. I never believe a good quality software can be deployed in such short period of time. I argued to no avail. I have 3 fairly experienced developers at my disposal.

Despite this, I proceeded designing the architecture. We need to develop an app server, a mobile client and a desktop client. I alone handled the architecture design, research, development, and deployment. We survived, unpleasantly. I believe I have then suffer with some level of depression.

As retrospective, I:

* failed at properly documenting the architecture

* failed at properly setting up the dev env so that the other developers can run their instances of the solution locally

* dwelled too much time to achieve the above point

* dwelled too much time to automate things, especially at trying to automate dev, staging, production setup

* failed to look at minor details (I need help with this, I'm a big picture guy, never the details)

* should have sticked to SDK provided by third party, instead I chose to go with something totally new to me just because the SDK is only available with COM Interop and I do not have any Windows machine with me.

I believe I have the knowledge, and not afraid of looking for the knowledge and the "proper" ways of things should be done. And maybe trying too hard.

Back to the topic, what makes a good solution architect, how can I improve myself?