danobot / gitlab_task_manager

Elegant Microsoft To-Do inspired desktop and web app leveraging Gitlab's Issue Tracker in the backend

Gitlab Task Manager is a task manager application which hooks into Gitlab's Issue Tracker as the backend. Simply create a project on gitlab.com or your personal Gitlab instance, generate an API token and you are ready to start using GTM.

Features

• Uses Gitlab labels to manage task lists
• Add tasks to "My Day"
• Star tasks to mark them as important
• Clear all completed tasks
• Leave comments on tasks that appear as comments in Gitlab
• Create new task lists from the app
• Assign task labels using hashtags (e.g. "Get Milk #shopping" )
• View all issues with a particular label by clicking on the label itself

Motivation

As I work on many hobby projects at the same time, I felt the need to add comments to a task as a place to note down decisions, research and root cause analysis findings. I really liked the look and feel of Microsoft Todo and the functionality of Gitlab's issue tracker and wanted to combine them into one easy-to-use tool.

Implementation

This application was bootstrapped using Create React App and is distributed as a Docker web application as well as an Electron Desktop App.

Getting Started

Copy src/config.sample.js to src/config.js and modify the Gitlab values.

yarn
yarn start

Available Yarn/NPM Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

• Run for development yarn dev
• Build the electron app yarn dist (If this fails, run npm install first.)
• Build and publish Electron App yarn dist
• Run Electron build on Linux using Docker bash dist.sh
• Build docker image yarn docker-build

Docker Deployment

You can deploy the webapplication using docker for use on mobile. Rename docker-compose.sample.yaml to docker-compose.yaml.

docker-compose up -d

This will build the image and deploy.

Development

yarn start Runs the app in the development mode. Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

Contributing

See contributing.md