Pins4Days

A Google App Engine (standard) app written in Python for gathering up and displaying in one place all the messages your team has ever pinned.

Currently supports storing pin events in real time.

Why?

Because channels have a max of 100 pins and if you've taken up the strategy of simply moving to a new channel when that happens, you might care to see your pins in a single place, conveniently. :)

Also, I wanted to try GCP! This was an excuse to do so.

What's it going to cost?

This is being implemented with the constraint that it only uses what's available in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) free tier.

This app uses the following free tier GCP products:

• Google App Engine (for hosting and serving the app, and using shared memcache for user sessions)
• Google Cloud Datastore (for storing pins, attachments and users)
• Google Cloud Storage (for storing the app config [Could also just use Datastore for this but I wanted to try out Cloud Storage. Subject to change :)])

Installation

⚠️TODO

Tests

From the root dir:

python runner.py /usr/local/opt/google-cloud-sdk/ --test-path=test

TODO

I know, there's a lot that needs to be implemented and can be improved. I'll get to it one day.

• user permissions
• make a Slack API request to get channels (specifically for getting the names), keep in mem, poll occasionally to update
• read in and store existing pins from all channels (utilize task queues)
• tests
• docstrings
• readme
• auth for api endpoint
• log out
• update dir structure
  • http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/views/
  • create models/ dir
• refactor templates (i.e. reuse general HTML structure: common header, containers, etc)
• ⭐️ consider storing pins and deleting them as the pin events are sent from Slack to avoid ever hitting the 100 pin max
• make this less ugly. like.. WAY less ugly. maybe play with React!