A fullstack MERN application (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) with CRUD capability on multiple models that allow you track, project-manage, and share your GitHub projects in a visually appealing way with social accountability. The app utilizes the GitHub API for data requests, JSON Web Token for authorization/authentication, and Mongoose models/schemas for data structures. The app is deployed to Heroku and can be accessed and used here.
All of us worked on various React components and functionality/feature building for the project, as well has together on many feature challenges.
- Brandon @byamane - Scrum Master, Designer, Database/ERD Manager
- Catt @catt-tung - Documenter, Designer, Wireframer
- Chris @CmilesH - GitHub Manager, API Manager
Unclear project status, low motivation, only understandable to other devs
Software development projects often get created and half-finished, and the way repositories are displayed on GitHub make them all look the same, regardless of the content or current status/progress. Projects on GitHub are only understandable to other developers, and not to without a technical background.
Full project status clarity, social accountability, ability to share with everyone!
The app converts your GitHub repositories into a visual project manager so you can see where your projects are, work toward your goals and milestones, and showcase finished products. It includes a social feed where people can comment on you hitting your milestones/completing projects, and check out other people’s projects to encourage each other/hold each other accountable to completing projects.
git Together makes what it takes to reach your GitHub project completion goals extremely clear, and helps you receive social accountability along the way.
The app intends to create motivation/encouragement, help complete more projects, and translate the coding journey into a visually understandable process, so that even people without a coding background can appreciate them and be encouraged to start their own coding journey.
To use this app, you have to create an account and link up your GitHub account. From there, you create a new project from a linked GitHub repository, and add project deadlines and goals/milestones to the project. The app shows you the current status of your project with a progress bar that dynamically updates with your milestone completion so you can see how far you are. Beyond your own projects tracking functionality, the app allows you to post in a social feed to share your progress with others and leave comments to encourage each other. You are also able to view other people’s projects.
Our initial wireframe actually matches pretty closely what we set out to build. The ERD on the other hand we had to refactor a couple times and ended up with three models with full CRUD functionality and an additional CRD model when initially we expected to have at most just two.
Some other goals and features we wanted to add was an auto-posting feature in the social feed when a milestone is hit to encourage more sharing, as well as add a commenting model to the project.
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- Badges for technologies were taken from Ileriayo's GH repo using shields.io