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A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Re: A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Post by TulliusCicero »

brenden2 wrote: post #39
oldboyFX wrote: post #27

Creator of "Jira Clone" here. First of all I want to make it clear that this is just a showcase/demo product. It's definitely not something I'm planning to sell. Additionally, it's not even remotely production ready, and it's missing about a zillion features that would make it a full-fledged project management software. The main reason I built this was to have a good showcase for potential future clients. The second…

Fewer features sounds great. I personally loath Jira, and avoid using it whenever possible, but your clone looks really nice. You can improve 100x on Jira just by making it faster, simpler, and easier to use. One suggestion: it looks too similar to Jira, you might want to change the design a bit so that Atlassian doesn't try to sue you or something.

Everyone says fewer features sounds great until the missing features includes the one they reeeeaaaallly need.

Re: A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Post by parhamn »

luckydata wrote: post #2

The real issue with jira is how unresponsive the backend feels.

We have 'macros' in https://www.cloudsynth.com to create issues on the various issue systems (jira/github/etc) and it it is actually pretty impressive how slow JIRA is compared to the rest of them. It's like theres a sleep loop or something.

Re: A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Post by Can_Not »

Some suggestions that may or may not be good

* Sentry.io for error tracking

* add dark mode. In fact, just let your users choose from any of the generic bootswatch css files. Use a cookie or something to remember which one so it sticks around longer than their user session. If your not using bootstrap 4 usually other popular framework's have something like bootswatch.

* use crystal lang instead of typescript or expresses for the server. You'll have a codebase that's faster and safer than typescript. You'll also be able to ship a binary to customers that don't pay the open source price.

* trello app for android has a bug where if I turn my screen off, it'll delete any text I've written but not yet saved. Don't do that.

Re: A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Post by bradknowles »

silicon2401 wrote: post #45
brenden2 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fewer features sounds great. I personally loath Jira, and avoid using it whenever possible, but your clone looks really nice. You can improve 100x on Jira just by making it faster, simpler, and easier to use. One suggestion: it looks too similar to Jira, you might want to change the design a bit so that Atlassian doesn't try to sue you or something.

What do you prefer to Jira? At a former workplace we used Gitlab, which was a pleasant suite to use. These days we use Atlassian and often find myself incredibly frustrated by their products

I did a six month contract at Apple Retail Software Engineering back in 2013, and was introduced to Pivotal Tracker. I always thought that tool worked pretty well.

I've heard good things about Rally.

Trello was good and simple, back when it wasn't owned by Atlassian (the makers of JIRA).

So far as I know, that's about it.

Re: A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Post by dsr_ »

silicon2401 wrote: post #45
brenden2 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fewer features sounds great. I personally loath Jira, and avoid using it whenever possible, but your clone looks really nice. You can improve 100x on Jira just by making it faster, simpler, and easier to use. One suggestion: it looks too similar to Jira, you might want to change the design a bit so that Atlassian doesn't try to sue you or something.

What do you prefer to Jira? At a former workplace we used Gitlab, which was a pleasant suite to use. These days we use Atlassian and often find myself incredibly frustrated by their products

Request Tracker (RT) is awesome.

Does it look good? Nah, not particularly.

Re: A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Post by oldboyFX »

chrisweekly wrote: post #50
oldboyFX wrote: post #27

Creator of "Jira Clone" here. First of all I want to make it clear that this is just a showcase/demo product. It's definitely not something I'm planning to sell. Additionally, it's not even remotely production ready, and it's missing about a zillion features that would make it a full-fledged project management software. The main reason I built this was to have a good showcase for potential future clients. The second…

Thanks for sharing! You've got some nice patterns and utils in that repo. Random question: I noticed you switched from shorthand ` , ` to `React.Fragment` elements. Did you have a need to use keys somewhere and decided to update them all to be consistent? Just curious.

I switched because `` breaks syntax highlighting on Github for `.jsx` files.

And since most people will be inspecting the code on Github, I thought it was worth switching.

Re: A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Post by montroser »

silicon2401 wrote: post #45
brenden2 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fewer features sounds great. I personally loath Jira, and avoid using it whenever possible, but your clone looks really nice. You can improve 100x on Jira just by making it faster, simpler, and easier to use. One suggestion: it looks too similar to Jira, you might want to change the design a bit so that Atlassian doesn't try to sue you or something.

What do you prefer to Jira? At a former workplace we used Gitlab, which was a pleasant suite to use. These days we use Atlassian and often find myself incredibly frustrated by their products

We've been using https://subtask.co -- it has 3 pretty awesome features which I'm baffled why Trello doesn't have:

- You can break down tasks into subtasks and those subtasks into subtasks themselves, etc

- You can dynamically group task columns by who's working on them, what is their status, what is their goal, etc

- You can arrange what's to be done on an effort-value grid, which helps immensely when choosing what to take on next

Re: A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Post by mirekrusin »

gshdg wrote: post #47

Just a suggestion after skimming the README: the technologies something was built with are not its features. Features are the things the software can do for the end user.

Seriously are you and many commenters here missing the point? Author says several times this is not a product, it's a showcase of his skills as well as a reference codebase for people wanting to learn how to use ts/react/hooks/whatever in medium-size complexity project. The "features" here are technologies used.

Re: A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

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Post by ZenModeRy »

silicon2401 wrote: post #45
brenden2 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fewer features sounds great. I personally loath Jira, and avoid using it whenever possible, but your clone looks really nice. You can improve 100x on Jira just by making it faster, simpler, and easier to use. One suggestion: it looks too similar to Jira, you might want to change the design a bit so that Atlassian doesn't try to sue you or something.

What do you prefer to Jira? At a former workplace we used Gitlab, which was a pleasant suite to use. These days we use Atlassian and often find myself incredibly frustrated by their products

Check out Hive. Really nice for medium sized projects.
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