rickschubert / ticketdashboard

Example app: Dashboard for GitHub and ZenHub metrics

Ticket Dashboard

This dashboard displays live information about the amount of open and closed tickets on GitHub for our team. The dashboard compares the progress over time (last week, last month, all time). By also integrating ZenHub, managers can track how long the average development time was per ticket. Additionally, the computed metrics get stored daily to make out statistical trends.

Technologies used

• React Front-End with client-side routing
• Node.JS REST API
• MongoDB database with a number of complex queries to aggregate metrics
• Cronjobs to crawl the APIs, making severe use of async concepts
• Tests with mocha and supertest
• Webpack and ESLint for best-practices in code optimisation
• Heroku deployment

ticketdashboard's Issues

Freeze time (demo database doesn't run cronjobs which keep the data continuously up to date)

I have to hard-code the times for querying the routes as I am using static data due to demo purposes. The cronjobs in the actual project run continuously which keeps the tickets in the database always up to date. For this demo, cronjobs are not set up which is why (as by this date) issues from last week don't get pulled anymore - because there are no tickets which have been created last week! All the tickets in the database are older than a week ago. This is why I have to freeze time in the demo.

amount_bugs_since.js

// Freeze time for demo purposes
let currentDate = new Date("2017-10-26T20:23:01.804Z")
currentDate.setDate(currentDate.getDate() - 7)
const pastWeek = currentDate.toISOString()

currentDate = new Date("2017-10-26T20:23:01.804Z")
currentDate.setDate(currentDate.getDate() - 30)
const pastMonth = currentDate.toISOString()

amount_issues_since.js

// Freeze time for demo purposes
let currentDate = new Date("2017-10-26T20:23:01.804Z")
currentDate.setDate(currentDate.getDate() - 7)
const pastWeek = currentDate.toISOString()

currentDate = new Date("2017-10-26T20:23:01.804Z")
currentDate.setDate(currentDate.getDate() - 30)
const pastMonth = currentDate.toISOString()