Github User Search

This project demos how to use the Github API.

Clone the github-user-search and github-user-search-server repos and run npm install

This will start the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.
You may also see any lint errors in the console.

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

Because a user is not required to provide Github permissions, I had to use an authentication token to be able to access the github API, but including this token in the frontend end is not safe. I had to create a nodejs server so that this token is safe from the public.

The way the Github api works is that, when you call /search/users endpoint it returns an array of user objects that has api links to access detailed user data, with this in hindsight i looped through the returned users array, calling the /users/userId endpoint that returns the user details and use Promises.all javascript api batch these requests and send them all at once, after use a spead operator to combine the response from the initial request and the subsequent requests. This makes it user friendly and fast to query the Github API.

kbuhiire/github-user-search-frontend