Human Resource Portal for GitHub Applicants
- JavaScript
- React
- Redux
- CSS
- GitHub API
This app was constructed for the HR department of an imaginary company. The client needed the ability to find GitHub users based on their real names or email addresses. Other requirments included, but were not limited to:
- Use of a modenr JS framework.
- Search form.
- Single page application, with search results displayed on the same page as the search form.
- Results including the following information:
- Username
- Real Name
- Avatar
- Location
- Number of Public Repos
- Account Creation Date
- Last Update Date Limited results. Link to User's GitHub Profile.
The GitHub API does allow for users to make queries without being authenticated. However, this limits the user to 60 calls per hour. I looked into using GitHub's OAuth for this project, however, after investing a good deal of time into researching OAuth and making a few different attempts, it seemed best for the completion of the project to move forward with the unauthenticated API calls.
In a future version of the application, adding GitHub authentication would be a prime update feature.
Total Time: 17:10
Saturday: 0:59
- Set up repo
- Initialize React app
- Research GitHub API
Sunday: 5:36
- Routring
- Work on error with requests module
- Address error with requests
- Make to-do list to make sure of deliverables and necessary steps
- Get started on frontend search form
- Setup Redux
- Test API call from front end
- Make results component
- Render test results in a component
Monday: 6:51
- Deploy inital React app to GitHub pages
- Styling
- Code querying function for making calls to GitHub API
- Further research OAuth for GitHub API
Tuesday: 3:44
- Style edits
- Include message for if no results are found
- Further research OAuth
- Attempted
/events/publicto retrieve emails. (Successful, but caused addition issues.) - Write documentation (this time is not included in overall time expediture)