It's a UI for my job search automation project.
For now it's built on React and Vite, but that's just to get basic functionality scaffolded so I have something immediately usable, and I'm still evaluating other options longer-term. Note that, for those reasons, it's not really focused on being performance optimized, and there are still a few things that are broken. (Notably, this has mostly been tested on Chromium browsers, and I'm still working out some of the issues on Firefox around the animations in particular as well as a handful of other CSS compatibility snags. I also don't even have any iDevices to test this with.) It's local first, so the mobile UI is still experimental, and I haven't put time into other features that I might care about if this were in any way meant to be a product.
A lot of reasons. First of all, like I said in the other repo, I built this for me. It's also for the sake of a new demo project -- one that's a little more evergreen than my last thing, with usability (and continued reason to work on it) that doesn't depend on something like having a consistent place to play DDR, and the added bonus that I can link back to it in all the jobs that my project finds me. Additionally, I'm slowly expanding out to other automation -- like templating out cover letters, tracking interview details, and more.
It's also various experiments. Later under-the-hood ideas aside, this one is also styled and (save for some class manipulation using JavaScript) animated purely in vanilla CSS, and it attempts to lean as much on what's offered by native HTML as possible. Things like the use of formData are something of a choice, and not just a fragment of my longer-term plan to try writing this in something other than client-side React. (That said, the effort to broaden my use of plain HTML elements, and further lean on their baseline functionality, is also an effort to break away from the heavy use of class-based CSS -- library or otherwise.)
On a related note, the whole project generally targets modern browsers, and doesn't really make effort toward legacy compatibility.
The "roadmap" is in large part in order of personal usefulness/importance. There's no auth since it's primarily single-user, and because this is internally a "for now" design anyway I'm being pretty loose with the code structure. You'll most likely be able to tell where I've put work into this and where I haven't -- and that's fine, because again the primary goal of this is to use the automation, and spend my time on anything else.
(This is mostly a truncated version of the original README generated by Vite.)
- The backend linked at the top of this README
- Deno 2.0 or above
- (The backend may use newer versions, but this requirement is for Vite and is specific to this repo)
- Start a live dev server:
deno run dev - Build production assets:
deno run build - Serve a static build:
deno run serve
The default server and port are matched up with those on the backend repo. For custom ones, optionally pass in the environment variables VITE_SERVER_URL,VITE_SERVER_PORT, and/or VITE_SERVER_PROTOCOL.