Hacktoberfest Checker

Useful checker web app to see how close you are to achieving the requirements for a free t-shirt as part of Hacktoberfest.

Updated for 2016

You can get involved by picking up some of the issues labelled hacktoberfest to help toward your tally!

Running the app

Generate a GitHub personal access token to ensure you don't get rate limited as often.
Export the GitHub token as an environment variable for Node.js to use.
- Mac/Linux: export GITHUB_TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN
- Windows (cmd.exe): set GITHUB_TOKEN=YOUR TOKEN
- Windows (Powershell): $env:GITHUB_TOKEN=YOUR TOKEN
npm install
node index.js
Point browser to localhost:5000

As an alternative to the section above, you can run the app within a docker container.

Ajax form submission
Fix ability to link to users that ajax fix above broke (e.g. http://localhost:5000/?username=jenkoian)
Implement an actual web page using Bootstrap or something
Add field for entering GitHub username
Cache usernames and etags to make use of If-None-Match to reduce risk of reaching rate limit on github API.
Show a list of pull requests in question
Add disclaimer (GitHub API only allows max of 300 events, so if you're a busy github bee, it probably won't do you justice)
or even better than the above disclaimer, use the search API rather than the event API
Add contextual message, e.g. 2/4 PRs done "Half way there", 4/4 PRs done "Way to go", 12/4 PRs done "Now you're showing off"