Open Sauced: A Hub to Track Your Open Source Contributions
Open Sauced, a public GitHub project, serves as a platform for open-source enthusiasts to track their contribution journey. It offers a structured pathway for hobbyists, enthusiasts, and professionals who wish to contribute to open-source projects but often find it challenging to keep track of their progress.
Project Overview:
Open Sauced aims to provide a user-friendly interface to navigate and track one's progress in the dynamic open source landscape. The need for such a platform has intensified with the growing popularity of contributing to open-source projects, due to the inherent benefits of fostering a community spirit, enhancing coding skills, and increasing employability. The users of Open Sauced range from coding novices who are making their first pull request to seasoned developers looking for a structured way to track their open source journey.
Project Features:
Open Sauced's key feature is providing an approachable platform to discover, track, and learn about open source repositories. It utilizes a notepad concept for saving and retrieving project-specific notes. Users can track their progress, save project-specific notes, and get suggested repositories to contribute to all in one place. For instance, a beginner in open source could use the note function to note down their understanding of a project before making their first commit.
Technology Stack:
Open Sauced is built on JavaScript, with extensive use of React, Apollo, and GraphQL. These technologies were chosen for their abilities to create responsive user interfaces, manage application state, and query data efficiently. GitHub's GraphQL API fuels the application data, and OneGraph manages the app analytics.
Project Structure and Architecture:
The project adopts a modular structure with clear distinction among its core components such as user authentication, data querying, data storage, and user interface. The interactive React components make the UI engaging while Apollo seamlessly connects these components with the GraphQL API.
