trungdq88 / github-explorer

Progressive Web Apps experiment

Introduction

GitHub Explorer is a Progressive Web App that helps you explore GitHub user repositories. This project is created for technology demonstration purpose, experiment how a web app "looks and behaves" like a native app.

Live demo: https://github-e.com

(currently no desktop layout available yet :-(, so please view this on mobile for better experience)

...or watch the GIFs below:

Overview	App Shell (not a GIF)	Material animation

Scored 88/100 in Lighthouse (auditing and performance metrics for Progressive Web Apps):

Goal:

• Change people beliefs on web apps by make it as much "native" as possible with cool technologies like ReactJS and Progressive Web Apps.

Tech stack:

• ReactJS for UI
• RxJS for data flow and basic app architecture
• Web App Manifest for add to home screen, splash screen...
• Service Worker for offline usage (sw-precache)
• Animation Performance with FLIP and best practices from this High Performance Animations Blog Post
• Application Shell Architecture for better user experience
• Babel for ES6 syntax
• Webpack for bundle
• Karma for testing (no test case yet)
• React Router Page Transition to make material transition effect possible.
• ...and more, please check package.json

This project is bootstraped from plain-react - a simple boilerplate to start a simple ReactJS application.

TODOs: a potentially technical blog post about this coming soon.

Development

Initial dev setup Make sure you have NodeJS v6 or above.

npm install
bower install
npm start 

http://localhost:8763 should now be live with Hot Module Replacement.

Production build

npm install 
npm run build 

Production code placed at build

Test

npm test

Coverage report placed in ./coverage/ directory

Other commands

• npm lint: linting.

Team

/* TEAM */

    Company: Silicon Straits Saigon
    www.siliconstraits.vn

    Developer: Trung Dinh Quang
    Contact: trungdq88 [at] gmail.com, quangtrung [at] siliconstraits.com
    From: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    UX/UI Designer: Huynh Anh Quan
    Contact anhquan [at] siliconstraits.com
    From: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Animation Designer: Van Cong Bang
    Contact congbang [at] siliconstraits.com
    From: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

/* THANKS */

    The Inspectocat Icon: Jason Costello 
    Contact: https://octodex.github.com/inspectocat
    From: San Francisco, CA