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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 jitix »

jschwartzi wrote: post #67
monadic2 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve found jira dysfunction often reflects the dysfunction of the underlying corporate structure.

Yeah, any time someone complains about how many FEATURES JIRA has, it's actually an issue with how their company's management team uses JIRA to micromanage the shit out of them and aggressively optimize metrics that don't matter. But that would be an issue with the organization instead of the tool. And those are much harder to fix.

I agree. I use JIRA at work (cloud hosted) with all kinds of plugins (TestRail, Aha, etc.) and its a horrifying experience, on top of that all the fields that are used for (micro?)managing people and work is cumbersome to work with.

For my personal projects I use JIRA server (solely because its cheap at $10 and has a decent mobile app to capture ideas in tickets/boards on the move) and my experience has been pretty good.

That being said if Github had a good mobile app I'd switch in a minute. My main problem with Github issues is that you cannot edit milestones in the mobile web app.

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

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Post by msquog »

mdtusz wrote: post #75
disordinary wrote: post #65

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JIRA is great but only in an enterprise where there's a team to manage it, I've moved on from it and I miss the flexibility that it offers - but that flexibility comes with extreme complexity. Most small to medium sized businesses don't need it and can make do with something with less features.

As a counterpoint to this, jira is _not_ great in any environment precisely because it is so flexible and requires a team to manage it. If a job needs to exist purely to maintain a third party tool that you pay for, you probably should find a new tool or make the tool yourself so that the employees work value is retained. It's the equivalent of doing a complete kitchen renovation on an apartment that you rent.

But jira isn't the problem that's being solved - a person hired full time would be a project manager, who in the absence of jira, would solve the project management problem with different tools.

Jira is not perfect. But the atlassian suite as a whole, with integration between CI, PM and version control, is quite powerful and more than adequate in many cases.

That said, boy have I seen it used terribly. It's double edged for sure.

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

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Post by jupp0r »

Looks great, two suggestions:

First, I wouldn't call it JIRA clone, because JIRA is a registered trademark by Atlassian and they might sue you for using it.

Second, I wouldn't call it JIRA clone because most people rightfully hate JIRA and at least to me your issue tracker seems to be simple, fast and user-centric, which is exactly what JIRA isn't.

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

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Post by jadbox »

codemac wrote: post #69

One of my pet theories is that if you are building a software engineering product, you should never write your own tools. You can't sell them, and you'll just be learning lessons completely unrelated to your product. However; if you are building a software engineering culture, you should write as many of your own tools as you can get away with. Nothing builds culture like a shared unique experience.

That's an interesting insight.. I found this to be true in practice too.

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

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Post by flukus »

disordinary wrote: post #65
brenden2 wrote: post #39

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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.

JIRA is great but only in an enterprise where there's a team to manage it, I've moved on from it and I miss the flexibility that it offers - but that flexibility comes with extreme complexity. Most small to medium sized businesses don't need it and can make do with something with less features.

> JIRA is great but only in an enterprise where there's a team to manage it

If you have a team to manage it then you may as well use that team to write your own, then you truly get the flexibility with none of the performance downside and having to program in crappy languages with crappy tools. Plus it can grow and evolve with your organization, for a start up a couple of cgi scripts on a rasberry pi are enough, for a large enterprise those cgi scripts are probably still 10 times faster than JIRA.

JIRA has become the SAP of bug of issue trackers and no one can use it well out of the box.

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

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Post by jsjohnst »

mathiasrw wrote: post #80
disordinary wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JIRA is great but only in an enterprise where there's a team to manage it, I've moved on from it and I miss the flexibility that it offers - but that flexibility comes with extreme complexity. Most small to medium sized businesses don't need it and can make do with something with less features.

I agree. What we need is Jira and Trello to have a baby

That thought is going to haunt my dreams tonight, thanks! If I wake up screaming in horror, I’m blaming you.

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

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Post by sandGorgon »

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…

You have built something very cool.

Just like Gitlab in early days. Please create a GitHub org around it and see if people want to contribute.

Only - brand it differently. Don't call it jira or clone. You'll be surprised on what a project can grow into if you paint the doors correctly.

Maybe call it Arij ;)

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