Git-Verbosity

We all know that writing detailed commit messages are important. This app allows you to enter a Github username, and then displays a bar chart of the average length of their and their friends' commit messages!

How verbose are you?

About the project

This project was created in under 5 hours as part of Mintbean's Careerhack Hackathon. The goal was to build something that uses GitHub's API.

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Technical challenges

• The app first makes a call to the /users/.../followers API endpoint to retrieve a list of people the user is following
• For each user, the app uses the /users/.../repo endpoint to randomly pick 5 repositories (worried about API limits)
• For each repo, the /repos/.../.../commits endpoint retrieves the first few commit messages
• The data is processed and used in the charting library

Screenshots

 

Built With

• React
• amCharts
• GitHub API