devmentor.pl - Javascript: Testing

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
• My process
  • What I learned
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

Overview

The challenge

The goal was to create an app similar to Client or SDK for GitHub API (a library that will make it easier to manage it). The way I had to code it was using TDD which means first to create the test and only then to code the functionality.

I coded a GitHubSDK class that uses GitHub API to get information about repositories. As an additional challenge, I created a template for the portfolio which includes selected repositories from my GitHub, and displaying them. Because it is impossible to get any screenshots of the page without the backend part I decided to add miniatures of the websites as images manually.

GitHubSDK class can:

• check how many commits were done at a particular repository,
• check when the repository was last updated,
• get all data about the project,
• get data about all projects.

All first three can be achieved by passing the name of the project to GitHubSDK method.

Screenshot

My process

What I learned

I learned that GitHub API exists and how to use it. I learned about API keys/tokens and how to use them for authentication. But the most important was to test my skill after learning about TDD process. In addition, I learned about config.js files and how to store secret pieces of information.

Useful resources

• devmentor.pl - thanks for my mentor for providing me materials about testing for study and all excercises.
• GitHub API Docs

Author

• Github - Axseinga
• Frontend Mentor - @Axseinga
• LinkedIn - @Agnieszka Urbanowicz

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my Mentor - devmentor.pl - for providing me with this task and for code review.