APM – The Agile Project Manager

Reasons why this project was started

• Jira sux
• I was on vacation and in need to do some fun stuff
• Practicing with Elixir and Phoenix

Prerequisites

• Erlang and Elixir is installed – see Elixir-Getting Started
• Basic knowledge of Elixir and Phoenix
• Basic knowledge about what 'Umbrella' means in Elixir

On the Web

• Github
• Project Page
• ZenHub Board

Project Structure and Subdirectories

./elixir

The elixir umbrella application includes the following applications

• apm_px - Phoenix Front- and Backend
• apm_issues - define, manipulate, and persistent (Jira)Issues
• apm_user - functions for user, role, ...

./aurelia-frontend

Just another frontend to give feedback for developers about how the APM backend in ./elexir can be used.

./docs

Files for the Github.io pages of this project.

Quick start developing

• cd into elixir/
• run mix deps.get
• cd into elixir/apps/apm_px
  • run npm install
• start the server with mix phoenix.server (in an extra terminal window)
  • now you can open the frontend in your browser http://localhost:4000
• start phantomjs --wd (in an extra terminal window)
• run the tests in path elixir with mix test --trace
• run only the unit-tests without E2E mix test --trace --exclude hound

tmux and fish shell

Start development- and testing-environment with tmux and fish-shell.

If you a TMUX-user, you can start all of the stuff mentioned above with a single command apm.tmux

• cd into the project's root
• start your tmux
• execute apm.tmux
  • It starts the phoenix server
  • it runs phantomjs for hound testing