Fast Issues

A GitHub app to speed up the creation of GitHub issues using plain text.

Overview

This app allows to enter GitHub issues in plain text in a text box and will automatically create the issues on submission using the GitHub API.

The only required field is the title. It also supports assigning the issue to someone, setting a description (that can any length but no line breaks), and tagging it with labels. All these fields must be separated by a pipe character.

Assignation and labeling supports multiple assignees and labels if they're separated by a comma.

For example:

Issue title | assignee | Description of the issue. | enhancement, speed

The app can be found at https://fast-issues.herokuapp.com/

Install

To install this locally:

git clone git@github.com:eliorivero/fast-issues.git
cd fast-issues
npm install

If you want to create your own, this requires you to create a GitHub OAuth app, and to get the client id and client secret into a .env file in the app root. It should be like:

CLIENT_SECRET=12345abcde
CLIENT_ID=12345abcde

Other accepted vars that can be defined here are:

PORT=8080

Scripts

There are some scripts included to build different environments:

Command	Description
npm run server	Starts the server with Express debugging, restarting automatically when files change.
npm run build	Build final files in a /public repository.

Backend

• Node.js
• Express
• Octokit REST to interact with the GitHub API
• dotenv to keep the configuration in the environment separated from the code.
• nodemon to restart the server when the files change.
• axios to handle data requests.

Frontend

• React